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18 Cards in this Set
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Adaptation
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-The process by which organisms cope with environmental stresses
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Anthropology
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- the holistic study of human species
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Applied Anthropology
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- The application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems.
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Archaeological Anthropology
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- The branch of anthropology that reconstructs, describes, and interprets human behavior and cultural patterns through material remains
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Biocultural
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- Referring to the inclusion and combination of both biological and cultural approaches
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Biological or Physical Anthropology
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- The branch of anthropology that studies human biological diversity in time and space; also includes primatology
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Cultural Anthropology
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- The study of human society and culture; describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences
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CRM
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- cultural resource management; The branch of applied archaeology aimed at preserving sites threatened by dams, highways, and other projects.
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Cultures
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- Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs; distinctly human; transmitted through learning
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Ethnography
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- Field work in a particular culture
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Ethnology
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- The theoretical, comparative study of society and culture, compares cultures in time and space
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General Anthropology
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- The field of anthropology as a whole, consisting of cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology
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Holistic
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- Interested in the whole of the human condition; past, present, and future
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Linguistic Anthropology
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- The branch of anthropology that studies linguistic variation in time and space, including interrelations between language and culture
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Natural Selection
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- The process by which nature selects the forms most fit to survive and reproduce in a given environment
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Phenotype
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- an organisms evident traits; it's "manifest biology" - anatomy and physiology
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Racial classification
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- The attempt to assign humans to discrete categories based on common ancestry
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Sociolinguistics
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- Study of relationships between social and linguistic variation; study of language in its social context
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