- Industry: Education
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Interested in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture.
Industry:Anthropology
Way of organizing production-a set of social relations through which labor is deployed to wrest energy from nature by means of tools, skills, and knowledge.
Industry:Anthropology
Specialized role acquired through a culturally appropriate process of selection, training, certification, and acquisition of a professional image; the curer is consulted by patients, who believe in his or her special powers, and receives some form of special consideration; a cultural universal.
Industry:Anthropology
The branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of, economic development.
Industry:Anthropology
The position that the values and standards of cultures differ and deserve respect. Extreme relativism argues that cultures should be judged solely by their own standards.
Industry:Anthropology
The research strategy that emphasizes the observer's rather than the natives' explanations, categories, and criteria of significance.
Industry:Anthropology
Cultivation of plants and domestication (stockbreeding) of animals; first developed in the Middle East 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.
Industry:Anthropology
Anthropological research in classrooms, homes, and neighborhoods, viewing students as total cultural creatures whose enculturation and attitudes toward education belong to a larger context that includes family, peers, and society.
Industry:Anthropology
A part-time religious practitioner who mediates between ordinary people and supernatural beings and forces.
Industry:Anthropology
Movement throughout the year by the whole pastoral group (men, women, and children) with their animals; more generally, such constant movement in pursuit of strategic resources.
Industry:Anthropology
