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1. Understand what it means that anthropology is the holistic and comparative study of humanity.

2. Know what distinguishes ethnography and ethnology.

3. Be able to identify and distinguish between the four subfields of anthropology.

4. Know what applied anthropology is and understand its relationship to academic anthropology.

5. Understand why anthropology is considered a social science and the role that hypothesis testing plays in structuring anthropological research and explanation.







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