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Anthropology
The study of human beings and human ancestors through time. Focuses on relation to physical characteristics, environmental effects, social relations and culture. The science of humans.
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formal interview
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An interview that consists of questions designed to elicit specific facts, attitudes, and opinions.
tool
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An object that appears to have been created for a specific purpose.
ulu
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An Eskimo word for a relatively large, semi-lunate, side-mounted "woman's knife".
structured interview
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An ethnographic data-gathering technique in which large numbers of respondents are asked a set of specific questions.
unstructured interview
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An ethnographic data-gathering technique usually used in the early stages of one's fieldwork in which interviewees are asked to respond to broad, open-ended questions.
puberty
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An event in the life cycle that includes rapid increase in stature, development of sex organs, and development of secondary sexual characteristics.
natural levels (also stratigraphic levels)
Anthropology; Cultural anthropology
An excavation level defined by the original stratigraphic units of the site.
Sub-categories
- Applied anthropology (144)
- Archaeology (76)
- Cultural anthropology (31040)
- Ethnology (33)
- Forensic anthropology (31)
- Mythology (5625)
- Physical anthropology (13414)