Antropology, Sociology, Psychology
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| Anthropology | The study of humankind, in all times and places.
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| Applied anthropology | The use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a specific client.
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| Archaeology | The study of material remains, usually from the past, to describe and explain human behavior.
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| Cultural anthropology | The branch of anthropology that focuses on humans as a culture-making species.
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| Culture-bound | Theories about the world and reality based on the assumptions and values of one's own culture.
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| Ethnography | The systematic description of a particular culture based on firsthand observation.
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| Ethnologist | An anthropologist who studies cultures from a comparative or historical point of view, utilizing ethnographic accounts.
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| Ethnoscientists | Anthropologists who seek to understand the principles behind native idea systems and the ways those principles inform a people about their environment and help them http://www.studystack.com/EditData2.jsp?studyStackId=232429survive.
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| Fact | An observation verified by several observers skilled in the necessary techniques of observation.
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| Forensic anthropology | Field of applied physical anthropology that specializes in the identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes.
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| Holistic perspective | A fundamental principle of anthropology, that the various parts of culture must be viewed in the broadest possible context in order to understand their interconnections and interdependence.
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| Hypothesis | A tentative explanation of the relation between certain phenomena.
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| Informants | Members of a society in which the ethnographer works who help interpret what she or he sees taking place.
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| Linguistic anthropology | The branch of cultural anthropology that studies human language.
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| Paleoanthropologist | An anthropologist who studies human evolution from fossil remains.
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| Participant observation | In ethnography, the technique of learning a people's culture through direct participation in their everyday life over an extended period of time.
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| Physical anthropology | The systematic study of humans as biological organisms.
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| Theory | In science, an explanation of natural phenomena, supported by a reliable body of data.
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| Aurignacian tradition | Toolmaking tradition in Europe and western Asia at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic.
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| Baton method | The technique of stone tool manufacture performed by striking the raw material with a bone or antler "baton" to remove flakes
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| Levalloisian technique | Toolmaking technique by which three or four long triangular flakes were detached from a specially prepared core. Developed by humans transitional from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens.
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| Middle Paleolithic | The middle part of the Old Stone Age characterized by the emergence of archaic H. sapiens and the development of the Mousterian tradition of toolmaking
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| Mousterian tradition | Toolmaking tradition of the Neandertals and their contemporaries of Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa, featuring flake tools that are lighter and smaller than earlier Levalloisian flake tools
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| Neandertals | Representatives of 'archaic' Homo sapiens in Europe and western Asia, living from about 130,000 years ago to about 35,000 years ago.
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| Paleolithic | The Old Stone Age, characterized by manufacture and use of chipped stone tools.
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| Bound morpheme | A sound that can occur in a language only in combination with other sounds, as "s" in English to signify the plural.
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| Code switching | The process of changing from one level of language to another.
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| Core vocabulary | In language, pronouns, lower numerals, and names for body parts and natural objects.
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| Dialects | Varying forms of a language that reflect particular regions or social classes and that are similar enough to be mutually intelligible.
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| Displacement | The ability to refer to things and events removed in time and space.
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| Ethnolinguistics | The study of the relation between language and culture.
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| Form classes | The parts of speech or categories of words that work the same way in any sentence.
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| Frame substitution | A method used to identify the syntactic units of language. For example, a category called "nouns" may be established as anything that will fit the substitution frame "I see a . . . "
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| Free morphemes | Morphemes that can occur unattached in a language; for example, "dog" and "cat" are free morphemes in English.
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| Glottochronology | In linguistics, a method of dating divergence in branches of language families.
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| Grammar | The entire formal structure of a language consisting of all observations about the morphemes and syntax.
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| Kinesics | A system of notating and analyzing postures, facial expressions, and body motions that convey messages.
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| Language | A system of communication using sounds or gestures that are put together in meaningful ways according to a set of rules.
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| Language family | A group of languages that are ultimately descended from a single ancestral language.
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| Linguistic divergence | The development of different languages from a single ancestral language.
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| Linguistic nationalism | The attempt by ethnic minorities, and even countries to proclaim independence by purging their languages of foreign terms.
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| Linguistic relativity | The proposition that diverse interpretations of reality embodied in languages yield demonstrable influences on thought.
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| Linguistics | The modern scientific study of all aspects of language.
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| Morphemes | In linguistics, the smallest units of sound that carry a meaning.
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| Paralanguage | The extralinguistic noises that accompany language, for example, those of crying or laughing.
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| Phonemes | In linguistics, the smallest classes of sound that make a difference in meaning.
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| Phonetics | The study of the production, transmission, and reception of speech sounds.
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| Signal | A sound or gesture that has a natural or self-evident meaning.
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| Sociolinguistics | The study of the structure and use of language as it relates to its social setting.
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| Symbols | Sounds or gestures that stand for meanings among a group of people.
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| Syntax | In linguistics, the rules or principles of phrase and sentence making
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| Vocal characterizers | In paralanguage, sound productions such as laughing or crying that humans "speak through."
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| Vocal qualifiers | In paralanguage, sound productions of brief duration that modify utterances in terms of intensity.
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| Vocal segregates | In paralanguage, sound productions that are similar to the sounds of language, but do not appear in sequences that can properly be called words.
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| Vocalizations | Identifiable paralinguistic noises that are turned on and off at perceivable and relatively short intervals.
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| Voice qualities | In paralanguage, the background characteristics of a speaker's voice.
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