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Anthropology 1 topic

The study of humans, past and present, that draws and builds upon knowledge from the social sciences and biological sciences, as well as the humanities and the natural sciences.
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The application of the method and theory of anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems.
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The branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the effect of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities.
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Ethnobiology No topics

The scientific study of dynamic relationships between peoples, biota, and environments, from the distant past to the immediate present.
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Ethnobotany No topics

The study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people.
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Ethnography No topics

The systematic study of people and cultures.
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Ethnology No topics

The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national divisions of humanity.
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Ethnopoetics No topics

The method of recording text versions of oral poetry or narrative performances (i.e., verbal lore) that uses poetic lines, verses, and stanzas (instead of prose paragraphs) to capture the formal, poetic performance elements which would otherwise be lost in the written texts.
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The interdisciplinary study of the evolution of human physiology and human behavior and the relation between hominids and non-hominid primates.
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The interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life.
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The interdisciplinary field which studies human health and disease, health care systems, and bio-cultural adaptation.
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The study of the physical development of the human species.
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The interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes.
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Within the United States, anthropology is divided into four sub-fields: archaeology, physical or biological anthropology, anthropological linguistics, and cultural anthropology.
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