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# What Is Anthropology? ## Introduction Imagine a research project that contains these three members: Randy Haas discovered the 9,000-year-old grave of a teenager buried with a hunting tool kit in the Andes mountains of Peru. Haas found that this hunter from long ago was a young woman. This discovery has upset the no...
# What Is Anthropology? ## The Study of Humanity, or "Anthropology Is Vast" ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Define the study of anthropology in the broadest sense. 2. Summarize the guiding narrative of anthropology. 3. Restate and explain the central commitments of anthropo...
# What Is Anthropology? ## The Four-Field Approach: Four Approaches within the Guiding Narrative ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Identify and define the four fields of anthropology. 2. Describe the work of professional anthropologists in each field. 3. Provide an example of...
# What Is Anthropology? ## Overcoming Ethnocentrism ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Define the concept of ethnocentrism and explain the ubiquity of ethnocentrism as a consequence of enculturation. 2. Distinguish certain forms of ethnocentrism in terms of their historical re...
# What Is Anthropology? ## Western Bias in Our Assumptions about Humanity ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Define and recognize cultural bias. 2. Analyze forms of cultural bias in our own interactions and institutions. 3. Describe how the four fields of anthropology can work...
# What Is Anthropology? ## Holism, Anthropology’s Distinctive Approach ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Define and give examples of holism. 2. Analyze how different elements of society cohere with and reinforce one another. 3. Identify how different elements of society can c...
# What Is Anthropology? ## Cross-Cultural Comparison and Cultural Relativism ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Define the concept of relativism and explain why this term is so important to the study of anthropology. 2. Distinguish relativism from the “anything goes” approach ...
# What Is Anthropology? ## Reaching for an Insider’s Point of View ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Define the notion of insider’s point of view. 2. Critique the notion of insider’s point of view, explaining how it is never perfectly achievable. 3. List and describe the dist...
# Methods: Cultural and Archaeological ## Introduction Fieldwork is one of the most important practices of anthropology. While all of the subfields of anthropology conduct fieldwork in some form to gather information, each subfield may use different methods of conducting research. The concept of working in “the field...
# Methods: Cultural and Archaeological ## Archaeological Research Methods ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Describe archaeological techniques for uncovering artifacts. 2. Explain the importance of context in making sense of artifacts and describe how researchers record conte...
# Methods: Cultural and Archaeological ## Conservation and Naturalism ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Describe conservation efforts undertaken in the United States in the 19th century. 2. Define salvage anthropology and describe its origins and methods. 3. Provide an exampl...
# Methods: Cultural and Archaeological ## Ethnography and Ethnology ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this chapter, you will be able to: 1. Identify early anthropological practices pertaining to ethnography. 2. Define ethnology and provide examples of how it is used in anthropology. 3. Describe efforts to achieve...
# Methods: Cultural and Archaeological ## Participant Observation and Interviewing ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Define participant observation and identify best practices associated with it. 2. Describe what makes a good informant for anthropological research. 3. Describ...
# Methods: Cultural and Archaeological ## Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Identify differences between quantitative and qualitative information. 2. Provide an example of how an anthropologist might model research findings. 3. Describe t...
# Methods: Cultural and Archaeological ## Collections ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Identify and explain the issues and needs of archival collections. 2. Identify and explain the issues and needs of three-dimensional collections. 3. Describe current controversies regardin...
# Culture Concept Theory: Theories of Cultural Change ## Introduction Though all humans have a set of basic needs, we meet those needs in very different ways in response to environmental conditions and social circumstances. For example, consider the basic human need for shelter. In places prone to flooding, people of...
# Culture Concept Theory: Theories of Cultural Change ## The Homeyness of Culture ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Explain the importance of culture to the concept of home. 2. Identify the centrality of culture in the discipline of anthropology. 3. Describe how each of the f...
# Culture Concept Theory: Theories of Cultural Change ## The Winkiness of Culture ### Learning Outcomes By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. Provide E. B. Tylor’s definition of culture. 2. Distinguish natural behavior from cultural behavior. 3. Describe deliberate and nondeliberate ways that people a...

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CC OpenBooks is a curated collection of high quality non-fiction books. All texts are from CC-By-4.0 sources, with no license ambiguity. The documents are normalized to markdown, and care is taken to ensure most formatting (e.g. inline LaTeX) remains intact. Files are manually inspected and cleaned of all defects wherever possible.

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The following Openstax collections were used in creating this dataset:

Introduction to Anthropology
College Success Concise
College Success
Preparing for College Success
Microbiology
Chemistry 2e
Chemistry: Atoms First 2e
Física universitaria volumen 1
Física universitaria volumen 2
Física universitaria volumen 3
Introduction to Business
Astronomy 2e
Principles of Marketing
Psychologia
Contemporary Mathematics
Statistics
World History Volume 1, to 1500
World History Volume 2, from 1400
Physics
Introduction to Political Science
Introducción a la estadística empresarial
Introducción a la estadística
Entrepreneurship
Fizyka dla szkół wyższych. Tom 1
Fizyka dla szkół wyższych. Tom 2
Fizyka dla szkół wyższych. Tom 3
Writing Guide with Handbook
Biology 2e
Biology for AP® Courses
Concepts of Biology
Introduction to Sociology 3e
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Precálculo 2ed
Psychology 2e
Playground
University Physics Volume 1
University Physics Volume 2
University Physics Volume 3
Principles of Finance
U.S. History
American Government 3e
Anatomy and Physiology 2e
Química 2ed
Química: Comenzando con los átomos 2ed
Elementary Algebra 2e
Intermediate Algebra 2e
Prealgebra 2e
Business Ethics
Organizational Behavior
Principles of Management
Introduction to Intellectual Property
Principles of Economics 3e
Principles of Macroeconomics 3e
Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Courses 2e
Algebra and Trigonometry 2e
College Algebra 2e
College Algebra with Corequisite Support 2e
Precalculus 2e
Introduction to Philosophy
College Physics 2e
College Physics for AP® Courses 2e
Mikroekonomia – Podstawy

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