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Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος, "human" or "person") consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). It is holistic in two senses: it is concerned with all humans at all times, and with all dimensions of humanity. A primary trait that traditionally distinguished anthropology from other humanistic disciplines is an emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons. This distinction has, however, become increasingly the subject of controversy and debate, with anthropological methods now bein ...

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Anthropology's traditional involvement with nonwestern cultures has involved it in politics in many different ways. Some political problems arise simply because anthropologists usually have more power than the people they study. Some have argued that the discipline is a form of colonialist theft in which the anthropologist gains power at the expense of subjects. The anthropologist, they argue, can gain yet more power by exploiting knowledge and artifacts of the people she or he studies while the people she or he studies gain nothing, ...

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Anthropological linguistics is the study of language through human genetics and human development. This strongly overlaps the field of linguistic anthropology, which is the branch of anthropology that studies humans through the languages that they use. Whatever one calls it, this field has had a major impact in the studies of visual perception (especially colour) and bioregional democracy, both of which are concerned with distinctions ...

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Visual anthropology is a subfield of sociocultural anthropology that developed out of the theory and practice of ethnographic photography, film and since the mid-1990s, new media. It also encompasses the anthropological study of representation, including areas such as performance, museums, art, and the production and reception of mass media. Visual anthropology - History. The origins of visual anthropology are located in the invention and application of photographic technologies to the study of human cultur ...

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Cyber Anthropology is a field of Anthropology dealing primarily with computers in human society. Other related archivesAnthropology, computers

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American Anthropological Association (AAA) was founded in 1902 and claims to be, "the world's largest professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology". Although there were several other American anthropological societies in existence at the turn of the 20th century, this new, national organization was formed "to promote the science of anthropology, to stimulate and coordinate the efforts of American anthropologists, to foster local and other societies devoted to anthropology, to serve as a bond among America ...

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Cultural anthropology, also called social anthropology or socio-cultural anthropology, forms one of four commonly-recognized fields of anthropology, the holistic study of humanity. It is the branch of anthropology that has developed and promoted "culture" as a meaningful scientific concept; it is also the branch of anthropology that studies cultural variation among humans. The anthropological concept of "culture reflects in part a reaction against earlier Western discourses based on an opposition between "culture" and "n ...

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Applied anthropology is a subdiscipline of cultural anthropology that tries to use the practices and theory of anthropology to solve immediate problems about human beings and their culture. Applied Anthropology is the application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess and solve contemporary social problems. Applied anthropologists work for nonacademic clients such as governments, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), tribal and ethnic associations, inte ...

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Physical anthropology, sometimes called "biological anthropology", studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. See also: Race. Physical anthropology developed in the 19th century, prior to the rise of Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, also known as the theory of evolution, and Gregor Mendel's theory of genetics. Physical anthropology was so called because all of its data was physical ...

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Typology in anthropology is the division of culture by races. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, anthropologists used a typological model to divide people from different cultures into "races," (e.g. negroid, caucasoid, mongoloid). This approach focused on a small number of traits that are readily observable from a distance such as skin color, hair form, body build, and stature. The typological model was built on the assumption that humans can be assigned to a race based on some small number of traits. This assumptio ...

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The Anthropological Society of London was founded in 1863 by Richard Francis Burton and Dr. James Hunt. It broke away from the existing Ethnological Society of London, founded in 1842, and defined itself in opposition to the older society. The Anthropological Society, Hunt proclaimed, would concern itself with the collection of facts and the identification of natural laws that explained the diversity of humankind. It would also cast its intellectual nets more broad ...

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The anthropology of religion involves the study of religious institutions in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures. In the 19th century, cultural anthropology was dominated by an interest in cultural evolution; most anthropologists assumed that there was a simple distinction between “primitive” and “modern” religion and tried to provide accounts of how the former evolved into the latter. In the 20th century most anthropologists rejected this approach. Today ...

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The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology is an archaeology and anthropology museum that is part of the University of Pennsylvania in University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - History. The UPM, as it is commonly known, was founded in 1887. During the early 20th century, the UPM conducted some of the first and most important archaeological and anthropological expeditions to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Africa, Eas ...

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Field may refer to: A field is an open land area, used for growing agricultural crops. Playing field, in sports, the area in which the sport is played Field (mathematics), one of a class of objects studied in abstract algebra, in which one can add, subtract, multiply, and divide Field (physics), an assignment of a quantity to every point of space Field (computer science), a smaller piece of data from a larger collection (eg, database fields) Depth of field, in pho ...

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In mathematics, an Archimedean field is an ordered field with the Archimedean property, named after the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse. In an ordered field F we can define the absolute value of an element x in F in the usual way by setting |x| = x for nonnegative x and |x| = −x for negative x. Then, an Archimedean field F is one such that for any x in F there exists n in the natu ...

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Elysian Fields can refer to: Hoboken, New Jersey park, Elysian Fields where first Baseball game between clubs is believed to have been played in 1846 The New York band Elysian Fields Elysium, a section of Hades from Greek Mythology A song by the thrash metal band Megadeth. The title track of the 2003 E.P. from CCM Hard Rock band Least Among Us. Other related archives1846, Baseball, CCM, Elysian Fields, Elysium, Greek

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In mathematics, a field F is said to be algebraically closed if every polynomial in one variable of degree at least 1, with coefficients in F, has a zero (root) in F. As an example, the field of real numbers is not algebraically closed, because the polynomial equation ...

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In physics, unified field theory is an attempt to unify all the fundamental forces and the interactions between elementary particles into a single theoretical framework. The term was coined by Einstein who attempted to reconcile the general theory of relativity with electromagnetism in a single field theory. His quest proved elusive and a unified field theory, sometimes grandiosely referred to as the Theory of Everything (TOE, for short), has remained the holy grail for physicists, the long-sought theory ...

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Wrigley Field is a sports stadium in Chicago, Illinois which was built in 1914 for the Chicago Federal League baseball team, the Chicago Whales and which became the home of the Chicago Cubs in 1916. It was also the home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League from 1921-1970. The ballpark was originally named Weeghman Park for the Whales' club owner, Charles Weeghman, who obtained a 99-year lease on the property from the city. The field became the home of the Chicago Cubs following the 1915 season when the Fe ...

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