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Anthropology
A holistic and comparative study of humanity and human life in all its complexity and understanding human thought and behavior
4 Subfields of Anthropology
Archaeology, Linguistics, Physical, and Cultural
Ethnographic Fieldwork
involves direct experience, participant observation, and "being there"
Unilinear Cultural Evolution
All cultures evolved from simple complex along a single trajectory of progress (Edward Tylor and Lewis Henry Morgan)
Diffusionism
Cultural artifacts or activités spread from more advanced to less advanced societies. People do not innovate cultural traits; they borrow from other societies.