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anthropological linguistics
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the anthropological study of linguistics
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anthropology
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a discipline that studies humans, focusing on the study of differences and similarities, both biological and cultural, in human populations. Anthropology is concernced with typical biological and cultural characteristics of human populations in all periods and in all parts of the world.
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applied anthropology
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the branch of anthropology that concerns itself with applying anthropological knowledge to achieve practical goals, usually in the service of an agency outside the traditional academic setting
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archaeology
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the branch of anthropology that seeks to reconstruct the daily life and customs of peoples who lived in the past and to trace and explain cultural changes. often lacking written records for study, archaeologists must try to reeconstruct history from the material remains of human cultures.
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biological anthropology
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the study of humans as biological organisms, dealing with the emergence and evolution of humans and with contemporary biological variations among human populations. aka physical anthropology
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cross-cultural researcher
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an ethnologist who uses enthnographic data about many societies to test possible explanations of cultural variation
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cultural anthropology
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the study of cultural variation and universals
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culture
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the set oflearned behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, and ideals that are characteristic of a particular society or population
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descriptive linguistics
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the study of how languages are constructed
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ethnographer
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a person who spends some time living with, interviewing, and observing a group of people so that he or she can describe their customs
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ethnography
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a description of a society's customary behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes
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ethnohistorian
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an ethnology who uses historical documents to study how a particuar culture has changed over time
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ethnology
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the study of how and why recent cultures differ and are similar
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fossils
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the hardened remains or impressions of plants and animals that lived in the past
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historical archaeology
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a speciality within archaeology that studies the material remains of recent peoples who left written records
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historical linguistics
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the study of how languages change over time
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holistic
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refers to an approach that studies many aspects of a multifaceted system
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homo sapiens sapiens
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modern-looking humans, undisputed examples of which appeared about 50,000 years ago; may have appeared earlier
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human paleontology
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the study of the emergence of humans and their later physical evolution. Also called paleoanthropology
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human variation
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the study of how and why contemporary human populations vary biologically
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prehistory
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the time before written records
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Primates
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a member of the mammalian order primates, divided into the two suborders of prosimians and anthropoids
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primatologists
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people who study primates (duh!!)
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sociolinguistics
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the study of cultural and subcultural patterns of speaking in different social contexts
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