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_______ is the holistic and scientific study of humanity
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Anthropology
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_________ is the anthropological subfield that focuses upon human material remains.
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Archaeology
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The subfield of anthropology that focuses on human genetics is _______.
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Biological anthropology
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Some efforts of anthropologists to preserve culture are harmful because they ignore the fact that...
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Culture change is a major way that people adapt to changing needs.
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Applied anthropology by definition focuses upon...
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Solving human problems
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Holism is valuable to anthropology because...
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It was part of Tylor's 1871 definition of culture, it conveys the idea that culture is highly complex, and it encourages anthropologists to investigate layers of socially constructed meaning.
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The idea that a culture must be understood in terms of its own values and beliefs and not by the standards of another culture is ________.
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Cultural relativism
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The story of the Nacirema gives an _____ perspective on American culture.
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Etic
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The cross cultural comparative analysis of a cultural characteristic is called
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Ethnology
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Colors standing for something more than just color is an example of...
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Symbolic characteristics.
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The meaning of colors and the story of getting the hat provided an example of
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Socially constructed nature.
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Critical cultural relativism asserts...
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That power differences between people who accept cultural practices should be used to understand cultures.
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Critical cultural relativism can be applied to the practice of child beating in Mali to understand...
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How power differences between parents and children lead to multiple emic perspectives on beating.
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The process through which we acquite and transmit culture is known as _______.
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Enculturation
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If your parents disown you for marrying someone of a different ethnicity, it would be an example of...
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Proscribed enculturation
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