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Cult Anthro ch 1
cult anthro: the human challenge ch 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The study of humankind in all times and places. | anthropology |
| The use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a specific client | applied anthropology |
| The study of human cultures through the recovery and analysis of material remains and environmental data. | archaeology |
| Focusing on the interaction of biology and culture. | biocultural |
| Also known as social or sociocultural anthropology. The study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought, and feelings. It focuses on humans as culture-producing and culture-reproducing creatures. | cultural anthropology |
| A branch of archaeology tied to government policies for the protection of cultural resources and involving surveying and/or excavating archaeological and historical remains threatened by construction or development. | cultural resource management (CRM) |
| Theories about the world and reality based on the assumptions and values of one’s own culture. | culture-bond |
| Based on observations of the world rather than on intuition or faith. | empirical |
| A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork. | ethnography |
| The study and analysis of different cultures from a comparative or historical point of view, utilizing ethnographic accounts and developing anthropological theories that help explain why certain important differences or similarities occur among groups. | ethnology |
| The term anthropologists use for on-location research. | fieldwork |
| Applied subfield of physical anthropology that specializes in the identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes. | forensic anthropology |
| Worldwide interconnectedness, evidenced in global movements of natural resources, trade goods, human labor, finance capital, information, and infectious diseases. | globalization |
| A fundamental principle of anthropology: that the various parts of human culture and biology must be viewed in the broadest possible context in order to understand their interconnections and interdependence. | holistic perspective |
| The economic foundation of a society, including its subsistence practices and the tools and other material equipment used to make a living. | infrastructure |
| The study of human languages, looking at each language’s structure, history, and/or its relation to social and cultural contexts. | linguistic anthropology |
| A branch of biological anthropology that uses genetic and biochemical techniques to test hypotheses about human evolution, adaptation, and variation. | molecular anthropology |
| The study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species. | paleoanthropology |
| In ethnography, technique of learning a people’s culture through soc participation & personal observation within community being studied, interviews & discussion with individual members of the group over an extended period of time. | participant observation |
| Also known as biological anthropology. The systematic study of humans as biological organisms. | physical anthropology |
| The study of living and fossil primates. | primatology |
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