w 13 Flashcards
Applied Anthropology:
The application of anthropological knowledge, concepts, theories, and methods to the solution of specific societal problems.specializes in putting anthropological knowledge into practice outside of academia.
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Introduction to Applied Anthropology
Applied anthropology can look like many different things:
Working on issues such as public health, inadequate food production, high infant mortality, political repression, and community development.
Develop new products, organize a vaccination program in a developing country, facilitate tam building in an international corporation.
Medical Anthropology:
a subfield of anthropology that draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better understand those factors which influence health and well-being, the prevention and treatment of sickness, healing processes and the social importance of medical systems.
Legal Anthropology:
a branch of sociocultural anthropology which inquires into the context of enforceable norms: social, political, economic, and intellectual.
Corporate Ethnography (Business Anthropology)
: a subfield in which anthropologists assist corporations in marketing particular products to people of specific demographics.