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| The study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the applicantion of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another |
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| The belief that one's own culture or way of life is normal & natural; using one's own culture to evaluate and judge the pratices and ideals of others |
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| A pstrategy crimary research in cultural anthropology involing living with a community of people over an extended period to better understand thier lives |
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| The use of four interrelated disciplines to study humanity: physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and cultural anthropology |
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| the anthropological commitment to consider the full scope of human life, including culture, biology, history, and language, across space and time |
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| The study of humans from a biological perspective, particulary focused on human evolution |
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| The study of the history of human evolution through the fossil record |
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| The study of living nonhuman primates as well as primate fossils to better understand human evolution and early human behavior |
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| The investigation of the human past by means of excavating and analyzing artifacts |
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| The reconstrutioin of human behavior in the distant past (before written records) through the examination of artifacts |
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| The exproration of more recent past through an examination of physical remains and artifacts as well as written or oral records |
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| The study of human language in the past and present |
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| Those who analyze languages and thier component parts |
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| Those who study how language changes over time within a culture and how languages travel across cultures |
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| Those who study language in its social and cultural contexts |
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| The study of people's communities, behaviors, beliefs, and institutions, including how people make meaning as they live, and play togetther |
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| a key anthropological research strategy involing both participation in and observation of the daily life of the people being studied |
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| the analysis and comparsion of ethnographic data across cultures |
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| the worldwide intensification of interactions and increased movement of money, people, goods, and ideas within and across national borders |
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| the rapid innovation of communication and transportation technologies associated with globalization that transforms the way people think about space and time |
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| the increasingly flexible strategies that corporations use to accumulate profits in an era of globalization, enabled by innovative communication and transportation technologies |
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| the accelerated movement of people within and between countries |
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| the unequal distribution of the benfits of globalization |
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| the dramatic transformations of economics, politics, and culture characteristics of contemporary globalization |
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| chnages to the Earth's climate, including global warming produced by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases created by human activity such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation |
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