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Hunting and gathering | Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Hunting and gathering as activities have been with humans for all of human evolution up to today. ... Those who consider hunter-gatherers to be ...

The Evolution of Social Connection as a Basic Human Need

Humans have evolved the basic need for social connection because it is vital to our survival. This need is rooted deep within us ...

Durkheimian anthropology and religion : Going in and out of each ...

In the bad-old days, so the story goes, anthropologists used to think that kinship was based on the fact that people go in and out of each other's bodies.

What Is Cultural Anthropology? - National Park Service

Cultural anthropologists study how people who share a common cultural system organize and shape the physical and social world around them, and ...

What is Anthropology?

how has evolution shaped how we think? what is culture? are there human universals? By taking the time to study peoples' lives in detail, anthropologists ...

Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives

... human? That is, what is the “range” of human diversity? □. What are the commonalities across all of these different kinds of humans and human lifeways? □. Why ...

Mobility and interlinkage: the transformation and new approaches ...

Internet links, cloud computing, complex database and human computation have changed the way people relate to the world, thus the anthropology ...

Chapter Outline

Human beings, the subject of anthropology, are one of the world's most adaptable animals. All humans share basic biological and behavioral characteristics that ...

A Viral Twitter Thread Reawakens the Dark History of Anthropology

And many people believe that weight loss is best achieved through diet and exercise. It's widely assumed that a calorie in is equivalent to a ...

What is Anthropology? | AMNH

Anthropologists study people from every angle. Some look at different people's customs, like how they eat, celebrate, or worship. Some study their history and ...

3. Doing Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology

People who are ethnocentric view their own cultures as central and normal and reject all other cultures as inferior and morally suspect. As it turns out, many ...

What makes us human? Answers from evolutionary anthropology

We suggest that preverbal imitation, beginning with mother-infant pairs, is the foundation of all social learning in humans. Cultural ...

Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology - The Carter Center

Anthropologists are interested in all things human. (P.3). Anthropology ... people's culture which connects humans to their supernatural beings. More ...

Cultural Anthropology - SAGE Publishing

Scholars in these disciplines often consider the behavior of people in the modern industrial nations of Europe and North America to be representative of all ...

Cultural Anthropology | Definition, Topics & Examples - Lesson

Cultural anthropology, sometimes referred to as social anthropology (a term more commonly used in Europe), includes all aspects of being human. Religion, ...

Toolkit - Essentials of Cultural Anthropology

... think more anthropologically about the world and its people. How are we all connected in a global age? At the City University of New York where I teach, 40 ...

Diffusionism and Acculturation - Anthropology

Some Social Evolutionists, on the other hand, proposed that the “psychic unity of mankind” meant that since all human beings share the same psychological traits ...

Chapter 2: Studying Contemporary Culture

Culture is not inherited as part of our DNA or other biology. Ethnographers learn about culture by participating in people's lives and learning their behavior.

Biological and Archaeological Principles of General Anthropology

Cultural constructions are the cognitive structures people create in order to perceive and classify aspects of the natural and social world around them.

How I Discovered My Passion for Anthropology | Admissions Blog

” Anthropologists work to understand “the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all human history,” relying on knowledge of a variety ...