anthropology
(noun)
the holistic scientific and social study of humans and humanity
Examples of anthropology in the following topics:
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The Origins of Culture
- Culture is a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of human phenomena that cannot be attributed to genetic inheritance.
- In the 20th century, "culture" emerged as a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of human phenomena that cannot be attributed to genetic inheritance.
- Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: (1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and (2) the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world acted creatively and classified or represented their experiences.
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Social Interaction in Urban Areas
- Urban anthropology is an anthropological subfield primarily concerned with urbanization, poverty, and the consequences of neoliberalism, or the contemporary political movement that advocates economic liberalization, free trade, free movement, and open markets.
- There are four central approaches to an anthropological study of cities.
- Design a research question using one of the four central approaches to the anthropological study of cities
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Kinship Patterns
- In anthropology, kinship refers to the web of social relationships that form an important part of human lives.
- One of the founders of anthropological relationship research was Lewis Henry Morgan, who wrote Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871).
- Kinship systems as defined in anthropological texts and ethnographies were seen as constituted by patterns of behavior and attitudes in relation to the differences in terminology for referring to relationships as well as for addressing others.
- Descent, like family systems, is one of the major concepts of anthropology.
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Wertsch - Biography
- ., is a professor in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.
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Meaning and Culture
- In the 20th century, "culture" emerged as a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of human phenomena that cannot be attributed to genetic inheritance.
- Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: (1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and (2) the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world classified and represented their experiences, and acted creatively.
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Sociobiology
- Often considered a branch of biology and sociology, it also draws from ethology, anthropology, evolution, zoology, archaeology, population genetics, and other disciplines.
- Within the study of human societies, sociobiology is very closely allied to the fields of Darwinian anthropology, human behavioral ecology, and evolutionary psychology.
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Defining Culture
- The 20th century saw the definition of culture finally attain the specific meanings we are more familiar with today, as it began to demand a large role in the study of anthropology and civilization.
- Modern anthropological viewpoints on the definition of culture are significantly more complex than the historical etymology, encapsulating both the human capacity for artistic expression (via symbols, painting, music, language, religion etc.) alongside the distinctive ways in which societies across the world interpreted and represented experiences and reality as a whole.
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Animism
- Specifically, animism is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the religion of indigenous tribal peoples, especially prior to the development of civilization and organized religions.
- Most contemporary animist native tribal people do not have a word in their languages that corresponds to "animism," it is a purely anthropological term rather than one self-designated by tribespeople themselves.
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Writing in Different Academic Disciplines
- The "humanities," as a discipline, includes not only literature, but also philosophy, ethics, performing arts, fine arts, history, aspects of anthropology and cultural studies, foreign languages, and linguistics.
- Categories of social science include psychology, anthropology, political science, sociology, education, and economics.
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Introduction to Microeconomics
- Economics, psychology, sociology, politics, anthropology and other branches of social science developed as separate fields of study.