Anthropology

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Anthropology

The study of people, their origins, development, and contemporary variations.

antropos logos

Anthropology came from the twoo greek word

Archaeology

A subdiscipline of anthropology that examines ancient and historical human populations.

Cultural Anthropology

The study of a society's culture through their belief systems, practices, and possessions.

Linguistic Anthropology

The examination of language in relation to culture.

Physical Anthropology

The study of biological development and contemporary variation of humans.

Applied Anthropology

The application of anthropological theories and approaches to solve contemporary problems.

anthropologists

need to establish rapport with their host societies before they can extract the life stories of people.

Key Informants

Individuals with significant knowledge on the topic being studied by anthropologists.

Participant-Observation Method

A research method where the anthropologist participates in the daily practices of the group being studied.

Culture

The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a group, encompassing everything learned as a member of society.

Material Culture

The tangible and visible parts of culture, such as clothes, food, and buildings.

Nonmaterial Culture

The intangible aspects of culture, including values, ideas, and knowledge.

Culture is Learned

Culture is a set of beliefs, attitudes, and practices that an individual learns through his/her family, school, church, and other social institutions.

Enculturation

The process of learning one's own culture.

Acculturation

The process of adopting desirable traits from another culture.

Deculturation

The loss of culture and the forgetting of cultural traits.

Culture is Shared

the set of behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs that a person possesses and collection of values and ideas that is communally owned and practice by members of society.

Culture Affects Biology

humans are born into cultures that have values on beauty and body. As such, they alter their bodies to fit into the physiological norms that are dictated by culture.

Culture is Adaptive

The use of culture as a tool for survival in response to environmental pressures.

Culture is Maladaptive

Culture can cause problems arise for the people who subscribe to it.

Culture Changes

This dynamism of culture is due to the changing needs of humans as they interpret and survive in their environment.

culture

everything that a person learns as a member of society

never static

the final characteristic of culture is that it is ______