Key Concepts of Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 1 What Is Anthropology

Key Terms
Anthropological linguisticsHistorical linguistics
AnthropologyHolistic
Applied (practical) anthropologyHuman paleontology
ArchaeologyHuman variation
Biological anthropologyPaleoanthropology
Cross-cultural researcherPrehistory
Cultural anthropologyPrimates
CulturePrimatologists
EthnographerSociolinguistics
EthnohistorianStructural (or descriptive) linguistics
EthnologyFunctionalism
FossilsStructural functionalism



Suggested Internet & InfoTrac College Edition Exercises
@ Visit web sit of the Canadian Museum of Civilization at http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/aborige.asp
@ Check out the various sections and interest groups of the American Anthropological Association at web site http://aaanet.org

 

College of Alameda Anthropology
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Updated January 2006