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What is Anthropology Flashcards

Chapter 1 of Kottak's textbook - Anthropology: Appreciating Human Diversity Week 1 ANTH1008 2014

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anthropology

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the study of the human species and its immediate ancestors

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holistic

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encompassing past, present, and future; biology, society, language and culture

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culture

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traditions and customs transmitted through learning

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food production

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an economy based on plant cultivation and/or animal domestication

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general anthropology

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anthropology as a whole: cultural, archaeological, biological and linguistic anthropology

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biocultural

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combining biological and cultural approaches to a given problem

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ethnography

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fieldwork in a particular cultural setting

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cultural anthropology

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the comparative, cross-cultural study of human society and culture

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ethnology

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the study of sociocultural differences and similarities

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archaeological anthropology

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the study of human behaviour through material remains

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biological anthropology

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the study of human biological variation in time and space

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physical anthropology

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same as biological anthropology - the study of human biological variation in time and space

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science

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field of study that seeks reliable explanations, with reference to the material and physical world

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linguistic anthropology

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the study of language and linguistic diversity in time, space and society

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sociolinguistics

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the study of language in society

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applied anthropology

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using anthropology to solve contemporary problems

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cultural resource management

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deciding what needs saving when entire archaeological sites cannot be saved

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theory

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a set of idea formulated to explain something

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association

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an observed relationship between two or more variables

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hypothesis

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a suggested but as yet unverified explanation

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