Anthropology Ch. 1

tries to explain how anthropology integrates all that is known about human beings and their activities

considers similarities and differences about human nature before making generalizations

sets of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society.Use to adapt and transform environment.

looks at what makes humans different from other organisms and what characteristics they share.

The oppression of one or more socially defined races by another socially defines race that is justifiable by biological superiority.

The study of non-human primates, the closest living relatives of human beings.

The search for fossilized remains of humanities earliest ancestors.

Study cultural diversity in all living human societies, including their own.

Shows how variation in beliefs and behaviors in different human groups is shaped by culture.

is a cultural anthropology of the human past, with interests ranging from the earliest stonetools to twentieth-century garbage dumps.

extended period in close involvements with whose language or way of life anthropologistsare interested.

People who in a particulare culture who work with the anthropologists and give insight to their life. Eg. Teachers, friends.

Ethnographic film and photography and the study of visual representation. Eg. Sandpaintings, tattoos, sculptures.

Relating varied forms of language to their cultural contexts

solves cross cultural problems like in health and linguistics by using other anthro. specialties.

human health, factors that contribute to disease and illness and ways that human populations deal with them.