Anthro 1 vocab

Anthropological research commissioned to serve an organization’s
needs.

• Applied anthropology

• Biological anthropology

• Cultural anthropology

• Ethnographic method

The study of the biological aspects of the human species, past
and present, along with those of our closest relatives, the nonhuman primates

• Biological anthropology

• Cultural relativism

• Linguistic anthropology

• Cultural anthropology

The study of past cultures, by excavating sites where people lived, worked,
farmed, or conducted some other activity

• Archaeology

• Colonialism

• Culture

• Diversity

A research method that derives insights from careful comparisons
of aspects of two or more cultures or societies

• Comparative method

• Cultural relativism

• Ethnographic method

• Industrialization

The study of the social lives of living communities

• Cultural anthropology

• Cultural relativism

• Holism

• Evolution

The study of how people communicate with one other another
through language and how language use shapes group membership and identity

• Linguistic anthropology

• Practicing anthropology

• Biological anthropology

• Applied anthropology

Defining colonized peoples as different from, and subordinate to, Europeans in
terms of their social, moral, and physical norms

• Othering

• Qualitative method

• Quantitative method

• Scientific method

A research strategy producing an in-depth and detailed description of
social activities and beliefs.

• Qualitative method

• Quantitative method

• Othering

• Salvage paradigm

A methodology that classifies features of a phenomenon, counting or
measuring them and constructing mathematical and statistical models to explain what is
observed.

• Quantitative method

• Qualitative method

• Practicing anthropology

• Theory

The paradigm which held that it was important to observe indigenous
ways of life, interview elders, and assemble collections of objects made and used by
indigenous peoples

• Salvage paradigm

• Scientific method

• Holistic perspective

• Interpretive theory of culture