| anthropology | The study of the human species and its immediate ancestors.
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| applied anthropology | The application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems.
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| archaeological anthropology | The study of human behavior and cultural patterns and processes through the culture’s material remains.
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| biological anthropology | The study of human biological variation in time and space; includes evolution, genetics, growth and development, and primatology.
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| cultural anthropology | The study of human society and culture; describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences.
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| culture | Distinctly human; transmitted through learning; traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs.
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| ethnography | Field work in a particular culture.
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| ethnology | Cross-cultural comparison; the comparative study of ethnographic data, of society, and of culture.
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| food production | Cultivation of plants and domestication (stockbreeding) of animals; first developed 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
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| general anthropology | The field of anthropology as a whole, consisting of cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic anthropology.
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| holistic | Interested in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture.
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| linguistic anthropology | The descriptive, comparative, and historical study of language and of linguistic similarities and differences in time, space, and society.
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| physical anthropology | See biological anthropology.
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| science | A systematic field of study or body of knowledge that aims, through experiment, observation, and deduction, to produce reliable explanations of phenomena, with reference to the material and physical world.
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| sociolinguistics | Investigates relationships between social and linguistic variations.
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| theory | An explanatory framework, containing a series of statements, that helps us understand why (something exists); theories suggest patterns, connections, and relationships that may be confirmed by new research.
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