Window on Humanity A Concise
Introduction to General
Anthropology
Biological Anthropology - ANS=Study human origins/evolution, and non-human
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primates
Cultural Anthropology - ANS=Differences and similarities in contemporary and
historically recent cultures; cuses and consequenses of sociocultural change;
impacts of golobalization and contacts on the world's peoples; other
names:social anthro. sociocultural and ethnology.
Cultural Resource Managments - ANS=A branch of archaeology tied to
government policies for the protection of cultural resources and involving
- ANS=A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce
Anthropology - ANS=It is the study of all aspects of human kind, biological,
cultural, and linguistic, past and present, throughout the world, using a holistic
approach.
Applied Anthropology - ANS=The use of anthropological knowledge and
methods to solve practical problems, often for a specific client.
Archaeological Anthropology - ANS=reconstructs, describes, and interprets
human behavior and cultural patterns through material remains
Biocultural - ANS=Focusing on the interaction of biology and culture
surveying and/or excavating archaeological and historical remains threatened
by construction or development.
Culture - ANS=Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
Ethnography - ANS=A detailed study of the life and activities of a group of people
by researchers who may live with that group over a period of years
Ethnology - ANS=branch of anthropology dealing with human races, their origin,
distribution, culture, etc.
Food Production - ANS=cultivation of plants and domestication of animals
general Anthropology - ANS=anthropology as a whole: cultural, archaeological,
biological, and linguistic anthropology
Holistic - ANS=Concerning the whole rather than the parts
Linguistic Anthropology - ANS=The study of human communication, including its
origins, history, and contemporary variation and change.
Science - ANS=An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the
natural world.
Society - ANS=A community of people who share a common culture
Sociolinguistics - ANS=A school of thought that focuses on the relationship
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