Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔The study of humans
holistic - correct answer ✔✔Looks at all parts in sum, all-encompassing
Biocultural - correct answer ✔✔relationship between biology and culture and environment
Inter-disciplinary - correct answer ✔✔the combining of two or more academic fields for synthesis of
information
4 fields of anthropology - correct answer ✔✔1. biological/physical
2. archaeology
3. linguistic
4. cultural
Archeology - correct answer ✔✔the study of material evidence of past human life
Cultural Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔Study of the culture of present day societies
What is culture? - correct answer ✔✔learned behavior that is transmitted from person to person and
shared by a group
Ethnography - correct answer ✔✔Collection of qualitative data about beliefs and social behavior
Linguistic Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔Interaction between language and culture in human
populations and our close relations
Sociologists - correct answer ✔✔Study of how social contexts influence the way ppl use language
, Physical Anthropology - correct answer ✔✔Interested in human biology in the framework of evolution
Osteology - correct answer ✔✔the study of the skeleton
Human Biology - correct answer ✔✔Study of human growth/development
Primatology - correct answer ✔✔Study of primates
Paleoanthropology - correct answer ✔✔Study of fossil record for non-human primates and non-humans
True/false the fossil record is constantly in flux - correct answer ✔✔True
Most direct evidence we have of the past in anthro? - correct answer ✔✔Fossilized remains
Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology - correct answer ✔✔Study of disease in ancient human populations
and the study of human remains in an archaeological context
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