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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 human cultures through the recovery and analysis of material remains and environmental data.  
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bioarchaeology   The archaeological study of human remains emphasizing the preservation of cultural and social processes in the skeleton.  
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biocultural   Focusing on the interaction of biology and culture.  
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cultural anthropology   The study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought, and feelings. It focuses on humans as culture–producing and culture–reproducing creatures. Also known as social or sociocultural anthropology.  
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cultural resource management   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.  
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culture   A society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and generate behavior and are reflected in that behavior.  
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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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discourse   An extended communication on a particular subject.  
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doctrine   An assertion of opinion or belief formally handed down by an authority as true and indisputable.  
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empirical   based on observation of the world rather than on intuition or faith  
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ethnocentrism   The belief that the ways of one’s own culture are the only proper ones.  
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ethnography   A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork.  
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ethnology   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.  
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fieldwork   The term anthropologists use for on–location research.  
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forensic anthropology   Applied subfield of physical anthropology that specializes in the identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes.  
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globalization   Worldwide interconnectedness, evidenced in global movements of natural resources, trade goods, human labor, finance capital, information, and infectious diseases.  
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holistic perspective   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.  
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hypothesis   A tentative explanation of the relation between certain phenomena.  
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informed consent   Formal recorded agreement to participate in research; federally mandated for all research in the United States and Europe.  
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linguistic anthropology   The study of human languages–looking at their structure, history, and relation to social and cultural contexts.  
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medical anthropology   A specialization in anthropology that combines theoretical and applied approaches from cultural and biological anthropology with the study of human health and disease.  
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molecular anthropology   A branch of biological anthropology that uses genetic and biochemical techniques to test hypotheses about human evolution, adaptation, and variation.  
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paleoanthropology   The study of the origins and predecessors of the present human species; the study of human evolution.  
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participant observation   In ethnography, the technique of learning a people’s culture through social participation and personal observation within the community being studied, as well as interviews and discussion with individual members of the group over an extended period of ti  
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physical anthropology   The systematic study of humans as biological organisms; also known as biological anthropology.  
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primatology   The study of living and fossil primates.  
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theory   In science, an explanation of natural phenomena, supported by a reliable body of data.  
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