Anthropology Final - Blinn College - Dr.
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What is anthropology? - ✔✔The study of humankind everywhere throughout
time, seeks knowledge about what makes people similar and different.
Anthropologists study the past and present.
What is holism? - ✔✔the study of the whole of the human condition: past,
present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture
What are the subfields of anthropology? - ✔✔physical anthropology: (biological
anthropology) focuses on humans as biological organisms, analyzes fossils and
living primates to reconstruct the ancestry of the human species.
archaeology: Studies material remains in order to describe and explain human
behavior.
linguistic anthropology: Studies human languages, (description of language,
history of language, study of language in its social setting)
cultural anthropology: the study of customary patterns in human behavior
thoughts and feelings focuses on humans as culture producing and culture
reproducing creatures.
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, Linguistic Anthropology - ✔✔studies language in its social and cultural context,
across space and over time
Physical Anthropology - ✔✔the study of humans from a biological perspective,
particularly focused on human evolution
Archaeology - ✔✔study of artifacts and relics of early mankind (material
remains)
Cultural Anthropology - ✔✔The study of human society and culture; describes,
analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences.
Ethnography - ✔✔A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based
on fieldwork.
ethnology - ✔✔the analysis and comparison of ethnographic data across
cultures (not firsthand)
Ethnocentrism - ✔✔Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Enculturation - ✔✔The social process by which culture is learned and
transmitted across generations
Culture - ✔✔the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions
shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
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Raisor Exam Q&A 100% Solved
What is anthropology? - ✔✔The study of humankind everywhere throughout
time, seeks knowledge about what makes people similar and different.
Anthropologists study the past and present.
What is holism? - ✔✔the study of the whole of the human condition: past,
present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture
What are the subfields of anthropology? - ✔✔physical anthropology: (biological
anthropology) focuses on humans as biological organisms, analyzes fossils and
living primates to reconstruct the ancestry of the human species.
archaeology: Studies material remains in order to describe and explain human
behavior.
linguistic anthropology: Studies human languages, (description of language,
history of language, study of language in its social setting)
cultural anthropology: the study of customary patterns in human behavior
thoughts and feelings focuses on humans as culture producing and culture
reproducing creatures.
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©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, Linguistic Anthropology - ✔✔studies language in its social and cultural context,
across space and over time
Physical Anthropology - ✔✔the study of humans from a biological perspective,
particularly focused on human evolution
Archaeology - ✔✔study of artifacts and relics of early mankind (material
remains)
Cultural Anthropology - ✔✔The study of human society and culture; describes,
analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences.
Ethnography - ✔✔A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based
on fieldwork.
ethnology - ✔✔the analysis and comparison of ethnographic data across
cultures (not firsthand)
Ethnocentrism - ✔✔Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Enculturation - ✔✔The social process by which culture is learned and
transmitted across generations
Culture - ✔✔the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions
shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
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©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
