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Anthropological theories of value – theories that attempt to expand on the traditional theories of value used by economists or ethicists; Cyborg anthropology – studies the interaction between humanity and technology from an anthropological perspective; Museum anthropology – domain that cross-cuts anthropology's sub-fields
An 'etic' account is a description of a behavior or belief by a social analyst or scientific observer (a student or scholar of anthropology or sociology, for example), in terms that can be applied across cultures; that is, an etic account attempts to be 'culturally neutral', limiting any ethnocentric, political or cultural bias or alienation by ...
Anthropological linguistics studies these distinctions, and relates them to types of societies and to actual bodily adaptation to the senses, much as it studies distinctions made in languages regarding the colours of the rainbow: seeing the tendency to increase the diversity of terms, as evidence that there are distinctions that bodies in this ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... there are fields that intersect with medical anthropology in terms of research ... (behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by ...
Embodiment theory speaks to the ways that experiences are enlivened, materialized, and situated in the world through the body.Embodiment is a relatively amorphous and dynamic conceptual framework in anthropological research that emphasizes possibility and process as opposed to definitive typologies. [1]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Basic concepts. Status and rank. ... "the terms of standard anthropological usage, 'tribe', 'clan' and 'lineage' appear to be ...
Anthropological linguistics is a related field that looks at the terms we use to describe economic relations and the ecologies they are set within. Many anthropological economists (or economic anthropologists) are reacting against what they see as the portrayal of modern society as an economic machine that merely produces and consumes.
Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...