ANT 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Human Terrain System, American Anthropological Association, Medical Anthropology

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Branch of physical anthropology in which anthropological data, criteria, and techniques are used to determine the sex, age, genetic population, or parentage of skeletal or biological materials in questions of civil or criminal law. Examination of human skeletal remains for law enforcement agencies to determine the identity of unidentified bones. Use of anthropological data, perspectives, theories, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary problems. Developmental anthropologists, work for world bank, agency for international. Biological anthropologists, work for public health, nutrition, genetic counseling, aging, substance abuse, mental health. American anthropological association has raised strong ethical objections to applying anthropology in war zones and for military intelligence. Criticisms of anthropologists" participation in the human terrain system project in iraq and afghanistan. Anthropologists may acquire unique perspective on organizational conditions and problems. Others work for the private sector as a market researcher for a business.

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