Solution Manual For Anthropology, 16th edition Carol R. Ember Peter N. Peregrine
Chapter 1-26 CHAPTER 1: What Is Anthropology? _____________________________________________________________ CHAPTER OUTLINE I. What Is Anthropology? II. The Scope of Anthropology A. The Holistic Approach B. Anthropological Curiosity III. Fields of Anthropology A. Biological Anthropology B. Cultural Anthropology 1. Archaeology 2. Anthropological Linguistics 3. Ethnology (Cultural Anthropology) C. Applied (Practicing) Anthropology D. Specialization IV. The Relevance of Anthropology A. Understanding Ourselves and Others B. Adapting to Global Change Resources for Discussion Delineating Anthropology When introducing themselves at cocktail parties, anthropologists are often asked one of two questions: ―Gone on any digs lately?‖ or ―Do you do work like Margaret Mead?‖ Actually, the questions do reflect certain aspects of anthropology. Some anthropologists spend their time looking in the ground for fossils of early humans (biological anthropologists) or excavating sites for evidence about past societies (archaeologists), and others go off to places like Samoa or New Guinea to study the lives of peoples in other societies (cultural anthropologists). Many anthropologists, however, do none of these kinds of research. Instead, they may devote their time to studying the verbal games of inner-city street gangs (linguistic anthropologists), the dreams and dream interpretations of the Mehinaku Indians of Central Brazil (psychological anthropologists), or the indigenous healing techniques used in Taiwan (medical anthropologists). As communications and plans for economic development draw more and more people into the modern world, ethnographers find it increasingly difficult to study isolated groups.