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The Study of Humankind
Anthropology: The study of humankind, in all times and places.
Physical anthropology: The systematic study of humans as biological organisms.
Paleoanthropology: Field of anthropology that studies human evolution through fossil
remains.
Forensic anthropology: Field of applied physical anthropology that specializes in the
identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes.
Cultural Anthropology: The branch of anthropology that focuses on human behavior.
Archaeology: The study of material remains, usually from the past, to describe and
explain human behavior.
Linguistic anthropology: The branch of cultural anthropology that studies human
language.
Ethnology: The branch of cultural anthropology that studies cultures that can be, or
have been, observed firsthand from a comparative or historical point of view.
Culture: shared behaviors, ideas, and artifacts. A way of life passed from generation to another.
Cultural relativism: studying other cultures without imposing your own values on them.
Ethnocentrism: an attitude or perception that one’s own culture and values are the only right
and proper way, and that other cultures are wrong or deficient.
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