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Cultural Anthropology
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The abilities, ideas, and behavior people have acquired to become a member of society (i.e., past & present culture).
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Linguistic Anthropology
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Study of history and structure of language and the ways humans use language.
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Physical Anthropology
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Study human evolution, human biology, and other primates.
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Forensic Anthropology
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Study of human remains to aid law enforcement in identifying human remains, interpreting trauma, and estimating time of death.
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Biological Anthropology
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Study of disease and illnesses, including how they can be genetically transmitted and caused by environment and social conditions.
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Paleoanthropology
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Study bone and stone remains of ancient ancestors based on evidence from the distant evolutionary past.
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Primatology
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Study of the thinking, characteristics, and communication patterns of primates from our distant evolutionary past.
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Archaeology
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Study of human construction and artifacts to understand how people lived in different cultures.
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Ethnology
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Study of the origins and cultures of different races and peoples, including marriage customs, religion, art, and technology.
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Historical Linguistics
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Comparing the similarities and differences of language structures to understand how languages are related and migration patterns of the past.
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Structural Linguistics
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The idea that our brains have predisposed structures of language.
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Sociolinguistics
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Study of how people use language within their culture to express status and context.
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Unstructured Interviews
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Data collection method that relies on asking questions with no set pattern in the order of questions asked.
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Structured Interviews
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Interview process in which questions are predetermined and asked in a set order.
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Semi-Structured Interview
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Blend of structured and unstructured interviews where the interviewer has an idea of questions but the paraphrasing and order are not set.
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Human Variation
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Study of the physical differences and similarities of existing human populations.
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Natural Selection
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The process by which populations of living organisms adapt and change due to variation, heritability, and environmental fitness.
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Bipedalism
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The trait of habitually walking on two legs.
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Neologism
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A newly coined word or expression that is commonly used in society.
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Ethnocentric
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The act of judging other cultures by the standards and values of one's own culture, believing one's own culture is superior.
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Edward Sapir
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Studied aboriginal peoples of Canada and recorded their languages; proposed that language influences thought.
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Franz Boas
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Promoted cultural relativism, stating that an anthropologist cannot compare cultures as everyone sees cultures through the lens of their own culture.
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Who studied the aboriginal peoples of Canada and recorded their languages, making the hypothesis that language influences thought?
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Edward Sapir
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Who promoted the idea of cultural relativism, stating that an anthropologist cannot compare two cultures objectively?
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Franz Boas
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Who proved humanity's African origin in 1959 and discovered the Laetoli footprints indicating the beginning of bipedalism?
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Mary Leakey
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Who pioneered the participant observation method to study cultures and created functional theory through work in the Trobriand Islands?
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Bronislaw Malinowski
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Who is known as the father of modern structural linguistics and proposed the theory that learning language is possible due to a predisposition in our brains?
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Noam Chomsky
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Who established the concept of natural selection to explain how animals and plants evolve, based on observations in the Galapagos islands?
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Charles Darwin
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Who found the skeleton named 'Lucy' in Ethiopia, part of the Australopithecus afarensis species, an ancient human ancestor?
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Donald Johanson
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Who pioneered cultural materialism, stating that material conditions influence how a culture develops, and applied it to the Hindu belief in the sacred cow?
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Marvin Harris
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