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Anthropology
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study of human nature, human society impact, culture, human past
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4 subfields of Anthropology
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Archeology, Linguistics, cultural, biological (physical)
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Field Base discipline
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contact with/ one-on-one contact in the field and teaching
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fieldwork
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collection with direct contact with people and live with
them to study them
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evolution
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change overtime look at biological (physical such as hair, genetic
makeup) and cultural evolution (customs, material items), behavior, beliefs
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ethnography
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description of customary behaviors of particular people for
cultural information
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participant observation
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actively engaging and recording video or pictures or writing
(different than fieldwork)
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informants
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people in a particular culture who work with anthropologists
and provide them with insight about their way of life. Also called respondents
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comparison
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a characteristic of the anthropological perspective that
requires anthropologists to consider similarities and differences in as a wide
a rage of human societies as possible before generalizing about human nature,
human society, or the human past
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holism
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how anthropology tries to integrate all that is know about
human beings and their activities. perspective on human condition in which the
whole is understood to be greater than the sum of its parts
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biological organism
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organisms (in this case human beings) whose defining
features are codetermined by biological and cultural factors
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explicit culture
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cultural knowledge that people can explain/ talk about. Example:
clothes, actions (playing), emotional states, people( mother father)
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tactic culture
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cultural knowledge that people lack words for. Abstract.
People usually Use 5 senses to understands culture but with this you cant see
it. Tak /t/ gah /g/ duh /d/
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components of human culture
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culture is learned, shared, pattered, adaptive, symbolic
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habitus
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cultural practices that are never really taught, rather
absorbed in the course of daily living practices (how to sleep and table
manners)
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