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society

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A group of people who depend on one another for survival or well-being as well as the relationships among such people, including their status and rolls.

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culture

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The learned behaviours and symbols that allow people to live in groups; the primary means by which humans adapt their environment; the ways of life characteristic of a particular human society.

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ethnocentrism

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Judging other cultures from the perspective of one’s own culture. The notion that one’s own culture is more beautiful, rational, and nearer to perfection than any other.

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cultural relativism

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The notion that cultures should be analysed with reference to their own histories and values rather than according to the values of another culture.

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holism

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In anthropology, an approach that considers culture, history, language, and biology essential to complete understanding of human society.

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cultural anthropology

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The study of human thought, behaviour, and lifeways that are learned rather than genetically transmitted and that are typical of groups of people.

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ethnoscape

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Global distribution of people associated with each other about history, kinship, friendship, and webs of mutual understandings.

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ethnography

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The major research tool of cultural anthropology; includes both fieldwork among people in a society and the written results of such fieldwork.

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emic

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Examining societies using concepts, categories, and distinctions that are meaningful to members of that culture.

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etic

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Examining societies using concepts, categories, and distinctions that are meaningful to members of that culture.

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ethnology

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The attempt to find general principles or laws that govern cultural phenomena.

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archaeology

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The sub-discipline of anthropology that focuses on the reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains.

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anthropological linguists

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The study of language and its relation to culture.

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biological anthropology

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The sub-discipline of anthropology that studies people from a biological perspective, focusing primarily on aspects of humankind that are generically inherited.

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human paleontology

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The focus within biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history.

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primatology

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The focus within biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behaviour of non-human primates.

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forensic anthropology

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The application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalised or badly decomposed human remains.

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applied anthropology

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The application of anthropology to the solution of human problems.