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cultural anthro 1

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the comparative study of human societies and cultures   show
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show goal of anthropology  
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anthropology attempts to comprehend the entire   show
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show archeology and primatology  
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anthropology is   show
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anthropology attempts to understand similarities and differences among   show
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show western societies  
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a group of people who depend on one another for survival or well being as well as the relationships among such people, including their status and roles   show
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the learned behaviors and symbols that allow people to live in groups   show
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cultural anthropologists attempt to understand culture through the study of its __, __, and __ as it changes through time and among people   show
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show cultural anthropology  
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description of cultural past based on written records, interviews, and archaeology   show
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show linguistic anthropology  
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study relationships among languages to better understand the histories and migrations of those who speak them   show
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show archaeology  
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societies for which we have no usable written records   show
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any object made or modified by human beings   show
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show past culture  
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show features  
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the archeological investigation of current day cities   show
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the protection and management of archaeological archival and architectural resources   show
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show biological or physical anthropology  
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biological or physical anthropology focuses primarily on aspects of humankind that are __   show
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biological or physical anthropology includes   show
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the subdiscipline of anthropology concerned with tracin gthe evolution of humankind in the fossil record   show
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the subdiscipline of anthropology concerned with mapping and explaining physical differences among modern human groups   show
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a member of a biological order of mammals that includes human beings, apes, and monkeys as well as prosimians (lemurs, tarsiers etc)   show
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show applied anthropology  
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groups of people who have occupied a region for a long time and are recognized by other groups as its original (or very ancient) inhabitants   show
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show minorities  
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show medical anthropology  
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show medical anthropology  
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the application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains   show
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show ethnocentrism  
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a situation where social or moral norms are confused or entirely absent, often caused by rapid rocial change   show
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show when a culture loses its value to its people  
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show racism  
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the notion that a culture should not be judged or evaluated according to the values of another culture   show
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show cultural relativism  
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examining society using concepts categories and distinctions that are meaningful to members of that culture   show
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show etic perspective  
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an outsiders perspective, which produces analyses that members of the society being studied may not find meaningful   show
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show ethnography and cross cultural compaison  
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show ethnography  
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ethnography includes both __ among people in society and the __ results of fieldwork   show
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ethnographic data is used in   show
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the firsthand systematic exploration of a society   show
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field work involves living with a group of people and participating in and observing their   show
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the fieldwork technique that involves gathering cultural data by observing people's behavior and participating in their lives   show
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show consultant  
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a person particularly knowledgeable about his or her own culture who is a major source of the anthropologists information   show
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show geneology  
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franz boas is the father of   show
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franz boas realized that whole of culture could be achieved only through   show
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his contributions are   show
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show own histories  
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theorized that although human actions might be considered morally right or wrong, no culture was more or less __ than another   show
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bronislaw lainowski   show
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show positivism  
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show empirical science  
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show ethnographic method  
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a theoretical perspective focusing on issues of power and voice   show
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show background, training, and social position  
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common steps to fieldwork,   show
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show androcentric bias  
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show cros cultural survey  
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show human relations file (HRAF)  
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show random sample  
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an anthropologist who does field work in his or her own culture   show
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show collaborative ethnography  
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in 1873, edward burnett tylor introduced the concept of __ as an explanation for the differences among human societies   show
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who defined culture as the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities aquired by a man as a member of society   show
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show culture made up of learned behaviors, involves symbols, patterned and intergrated, shared by members of a gorup, adaptive, subject to change  
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patterned and integrated means the elemts of culture stand in some logical relationship to   show
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show cultural and personality theorists  
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show ethnoscience  
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an anthropological discipline devoted to describing ways in which different cultures classify plants   show
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an anthropological discipline devoted to describing the medical systems of different cultures   show
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a theoretical perspective that hols that all cultures reflect similar deep, underlying patterns and that anthropologists should attempt to decipher these patterns   show
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show interpretive (symbolic) anthropology  
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two sorts of ideas that members of a culture might share   show
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show norms  
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norms seem to clusert around certain __ __ and __ in society   show
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show functionalism  
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show ecological functionalism  
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show cultural materialism  
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a theoretical perspective concerned with the historical change of culture from small scale societies to extremely large scale societies   show
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an ideal cultural pattern that influences beahvior in society   show
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show values  
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used to designate groups within a single society that share norms and values significantly different from those of a dominant culture   show
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a theoretical perspective concerned with applying the insights of marxist thought to anthropology   show
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neomarxists modify marxists analysis to make it appropriate to the investigation of __ societies   show
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theoretical perspective that focuses on describing and explaining the social roles of women   show
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a change in the biological structure or ways of life of an individual or population by which it becomes better fitted to survive adn resproduce in its enviroment   show
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show plasticity  
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a theoretical approach that regards cultural patterns as adaptive responses to the basic problems of human survival and reproduction   show
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a theoretical perspective that explores the relationship between human cultural behavior and genetics   show
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the spread of cultural elements from one culture to another through cultural contact   show
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show transculturation  
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the transformation of adopted cultural traits resulting in new cultural forms   show
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