Anthropology Words +

Academic anthropologists do research, but their objectives are more for making contributions to general knowledge.

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; and so, culture change resulting from contact with other cultures.

The Americanization of immigrants illustrates the process of acculturation.

Any use of anthropological knowledge for planned change by the member of a local cultural group.

Social patterns of behavior that enable a culture, or cultures, to cope with their environments.

Any use of anthropological knowledge that makes social interaction between people who operate with different cultural codes more predictable.

Any use of anthropological knowledge by the anthropologist to increase the power of self-determination for a particular cultural group.

Members of a person's relatives; such as, as a clan or tribe, who are related through marital linkage; that is, by marriage.

A fundamental principle of relationship linking kin through marriage.

A subsistence strategy involving intensive farming of permanent fields through the use of such means as the plow, irrigation, and fertilizer.

The knowledge people use to assign rights to the ownership and use of resources.

A reference to humans or the period of their existence on earth.

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.

1. Regarding humankind as the most important factor in the univierse.
2. Evaluating all occurrences solely by human values.

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.

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.