AN101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Participant Observation, Scientific Method, Culture Shock

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Anthropology is the study of human nature, human society and human history. Ology comes from the word logos-> word . Biological anthropology: the specialty of anthropology that looks at humans as a biological organism and tries to discover what characteristics make us different from and/or similar to other living things. Races: social groupings that allegedly reflected biological differences. Archaeology: the study of the human past through the analysis of material remains. Linguistic anthropology: the specialty of anthropology concerned with the study of human languages. Cultural anthropology: the specialty of anthropology that studies how variation in beliefs and behaviors is shaped by culture and learned by different members of human groups. Applied anthropology: the use of the other anthropologist"s specialties to solve practical problems within and between cultures. Cultural relativism: the perspective that all cultures are equally valid and can only be truly understood in their own terms. Ability to understand other people"s cultures without judging it.

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