ANTH 1003 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Social Darwinism, Franz Boas, Linguistic Prescription
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Cultural anthropology: the study of human society and culture. Ethnography the description of society or culture. Emic examining societies using concepts, categories, and distinctions that are meaningful to the culture. Etic examining societies using concepts, categories, and rules derived from science; an outsider"s perspective. Ethnology the attempt to find general principles or laws that govern cultural phenomena. Archaeology: the subdiscipline of anthropology that focuses on the. Reconstruction of past cultures based on their material remains. Anthropological linguistics: the study of language and its relation to culture. Physical or biological anthropology: the subdiscipline of anthropology that studies people from a biological perspective, focusing primarily on aspects of humankind that are genetically inherited. Human paleontology the focus within biological anthropology that traces human evolutionary history. Primatology the focus within biological anthropology that is concerned with the biology and behavior of nonhuman primates. Forensic anthropology: the application of biological anthropology to the identification of skeletalized or badly decomposed human remains.
