ANTH 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1 & 4: Paleopathology, Remote Sensing, Relative Dating
16 Dec 2016
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Anthropology- the study of the human species and its immediate ancestors. Holistic- encompassing past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture. Food production- an economy based on plant cultivation and/or animal domestication. General anthropology- anthropology as a whole; cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology. Biocultural- combining biological and cultural approaches to a given problem. Cultural anthropology- the comparative cross-cultural study of human society and culture. Enthology- the study of sociology differences and similarities. Archaeological anthropology- the study of human behavior through material remains. Biological anthropology- the study of human biological variation in time and space. Science- field of study that seeks reliable explanations, with reference to the material and physical world. Linguistic anthropology- the study of language and linguistic diversity in time, space, and society. Applied anthropology- using anthropology to solve contemporary problems. Cultural resource management- deciding what needs saving when entire archaeological sites cannot be saved. Theory- a set of ideas formulated to explain something.
