Anthropology Final

The study of humanity, including its prehistoric origins and contemporay human diversity

The study of humans as biological organisism, including evolution and contemporary variation

Study of past human cultures through their material remains

Study of human communication, including origins, history, and contemporary variation and change

Study of living peoples and their cultures, including variation and change

People's learned and shared behaviors and beliefs

Use of anthropoligical knowledge to prevent or solve problems or to shape and achieve policy goals

Theory that a culture is similar to a biological organism, in which parts work to support the operation and maintenance of the whole

Perspective that cultures are complex systems that cannot be fully understood without paying attention to their different components, including economics, social organizations, and ideology

Perspective that each culture must be understood in terms of the values and ideas of that culture and not judeged by the standards of another culture.

An object, word, or action with culturally defined meaning that stands for something else

Increased and intensified international ties related to the spread of Western, especially U.S., capitalism that affects all world cultures

Transformation of global culture by local cultures into something new

A way of categorizing people on the basis of their economic position in society, usually measured in terms of income or wealth

A classificaiton of people into groups on the basis of supposedly homogenous and biological traits such as skin color or hair characteristics.