The Branches

Question 1

Anthropologists

Answer 1

Anthropologist study humans living in diffrent social groups
⁃ Sources and devvelopment
⁃ Characteristics shared within culture

Question 2

5 branches

Answer 2

Physical, Cultural, Linguistic, Archeology, Social Anthropology

Question 3

Physical Anthropology

Answer 3

⁃ Study of human physical characteristics

⁃ Study modern cultures or fossil remains

Question 4

Example characteristics of humans

Answer 4

⁃ Hair colour
⁃ Height
⁃ Skin colour
⁃ Brain size

Question 5

Paleopathology

Answer 5

⁃ Human skeletons to find presentes of disease or injuries

Question 6

⁃ Forensic anthropology

Answer 6

⁃ Use of modern procedures to find identification of dead

Question 7

Primatology

Answer 7

⁃ How primatees (ex.apes) realte to develpopment of humans

Question 8

Cultural Anthropology

Answer 8

The study of how cultures compare to each other

Question 9

Characteristics

Answer 9

anything that separates different human cultures

Question 10

Some things Anthropologists may study

Answer 10

artwork, housing, material products, language, symbols, laws and values

Question 11

priminative or advanced cultures? (cultural archeology)

Answer 11

either

Question 12

Applied anthropology

Answer 12

⁃ Using information from research to solve problems humans face today

Question 13

Ethnology

Answer 13

⁃ Analyasis of diffrent cultures in modern science

Question 14

Ethnography

Answer 14

⁃ A written record of a person in a culture

Question 15

⁃ Visual anthropolgy

Answer 15

⁃ A branch of enthgraphy that uses photography, videotape and film

Question 16

Linguistic

Answer 16

The study of development of language

Question 17

Ethnoliguistics

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⁃ Study of lanuggae of a ethnic group within culture

Question 18

Sociolinguistics

Answer 18

⁃ Study how langugae effects parts of societies

Question 19

Archeaology

Answer 19

⁃ Study of objects left behind by eariler people.

Question 20

What may Archeologists study?

Answer 20

⁃ May study tools, artwork, structures, garbage

Question 21

Paleontology

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⁃ Study of development of earth life including plants and animals

Question 22

Archeometry

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⁃ Use of scientefic methods and data to find age of artifact

Question 23

Social anthropology

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⁃ Looks at social realtionships within human groups that part of institutes (ex.family, political systems, econimic systems)
⁃ Figure out what brings these groups together
⁃ What characteristics socienties find importnat
⁃ How people learn diffrent roles within societies

Question 24

Ethnography

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⁃ Study of human views of enviroment and societuy

Question 25

⁃ Econimic anthropology

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⁃ How goods/services are preduced/distributied

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⁃ Political anthropology

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⁃ How cultures and societies create political framework such as decision making

Question 27

⁃ Religious anthropology

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⁃ The study how religous belifes efect cutlure

Question 28

What two branches do scientists sometimes combine?

Answer 28

⁃ Some scholers combine cultural and social branches

Question 29

Which field of anthropology studies fossil remains to learn how human characteristics have developed?

Answer 29

physical anthropology

Question 30

Which field of anthropology studies the symbols, laws, and values of a society?

Answer 30

cultural anthropology

Question 31

Which field of anthropology studies how people in a society communicate with each other?

Answer 31

linguistic anthropology

Question 32

Which field of anthropology studies the relationship of racial groups in a society?

Answer 32

social anthropology

Question 33

Which field of anthropology studies the artifacts of broken dishes and iron pots that were created by an earlier civilization?

Answer 33

archaeology

Question 34

Which field of anthropology studies the ancient lifestyles of the Hopi Indians?

Answer 34

archaeology

Question 35

a field study of how an individual views his or her environment and society

Answer 35

ethnography

Question 36

Which field of anthropology studies the relationship of apes and monkeys compared to the development of human beings?

Answer 36

primatology