Anthropology Words +(anthropological key terms listed for a greater understanding of human beings, past and present)accuturation
1. The process that takes place when groups of individuals having different cultures come into first-hand contact, which results in change to the cultural patterns of both groups.
2. The gradual process of cultural change produced in a society that absorbs the traits of a different social group. The Americanization of immigrants illustrates the process of acculturation. action anthropology
Any use of anthropological knowledge for planned change by the member of a local cultural group.
adjustment anthropology
Any use of anthropological knowledge that makes social interaction between people who operate with different cultural codes more predictable.
advocate anthropology
Any use of anthropological knowledge by the anthropologist to increase the power of self-determination for a particular cultural group.
affinity
A fundamental principle of relationship linking kin through marriage.
agriculture
A subsistence strategy involving intensive farming of permanent fields through the use of such means as the plow, irrigation, and fertilizer.
allocation of resources
The knowledge people use to assign rights to the ownership and use of resources.
anthropic
A reference to humans or the period of their existence on earth.
anthropic principle
The assertion that the presence of intelligent life on earth places limits on the many ways the universe could have developed and could have caused the conditions of temperature that prevail today.
anthropocentric
1. Regarding humankind as the most important factor in the univierse.
2. Evaluating all occurrences solely by human values. anthropochory
Dispersal of plants or animals, accidentally or otherwise, by humans; such as, by dispersal of spores by adherence to clothing.
This involves disseminules or reproductive plant parts, such as seeds, fruits, or spores that are modified for dispersal by people. anthropogenic
That which is made, or generated, by a human or caused by human activity.
The term is used in the context of global climate change to refer to gaseous emissions that are the result of human activities, as well as other potentially climate-altering activities; such as, deforestation. anthropography
A branch of anthropology that deals with the geographic distribution of divisions of humans based on physical character, language, customs, and institutions.
anthropoid
1. Any creature; such as, the gorilla, chimpanzee, gibbon, or orangutan characterized by its resemblance to humans.
2. Resembling a human or an ape. Anthropoidea
A suborder of mammals in the order Primates including New and Old World monkeys.
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