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    interest. There are dimensions of context that are accomplished within a turn at talk and in sequences of talk‚ preference and politeness‚ conversation-analytic approaches to narrative and story-telling and the relevance of conversational analysis to anthropology. Within conversational analysis‚ there are some salient researches that focused on the problem in setting where social interaction is different with conversational interaction. One of them is‚ Sack study (1974) which indicated that among various

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    Radcliffe-Brown views society as an entity composed of functionally interdependent institutions. Structural-functional analysis‚ although later viewed as reductionist‚ deeply influenced the development of social anthropology and continues to influence the subfields of economic and political anthropology. Radcliffe-Brown derived his concept of function from physiology. He believed that the term "function" in the social sciences meant the same process as in biology. A different way of putting this is to say

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    Introduction To Anthropology: Lecture 2 Fifth Subfield of Anthropology: -Applied Anthropology -Public Anthropology -Use of anthropological methods and theories to solve real world problems Rob Borofsky: -Anthropology has the potential to change the world Methods: 1.Field -Anywhere that there is people‚ human behavior or culture 2.Fieldwork -Activities that are done in the field typically with a purpose to answer a research question Arrival Story -Barker’s arrival

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    QUIZZES 1 *Current Anthropology is more specialized & help people be more tolerant 4MAJOR SUBFIELDS OF ANTHRO: Linguistics;Archaeology;Sociocultural; Biological 1 Biological or Physical Anthropology least likely to study insect fossils human palaeontology and human variation others are interested how and why contemporary human populations vary biologically and interactions bet biology‚ environment and behaviour 2 Archaeology reconstruct daily life of ancient people and customsand

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    Forensic biology is the application of biology to law enforcement.It includes the subdisciplines of Forensic anthropology‚ Forensic botany‚ Forensic entomology‚ Forensic odontology and various DNA or protein based techniques. Applications Forensic biology has been used to prove a suspect was at a crime scene‚ identify illegal products from endangered species solve crimes by matching crime scene evidence to suspects‚ investigate airplane bird strikes‚ and investigate bird collisions with wind turbines

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    Sociology and Political Science: As a mother of social sciences Sociology has close and intimate relationship with all other social science. Hence it has close relationship with political science as well. Their relationship is so close and intimate that led G.E.C. Catlin to remark “Political Science and Sociology are two faces or aspects of the same figure.” Similarly other scholars could not find any difference between the two disciplines. Sociology is a Science of society. It is a science of social

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    “If economics is the dismal science‚ the study of hunting and gathering economies must be its most advanced branch” (Sahlins 1972: 1). Stone Age Economics is one of the well-known books in the subfield of economic anthropology provided by an American cultural anthropologist‚ Marshall Sahlins. This book is a slight representation in the literature dealing with ‘primitive’ or ‘tribal’ economic life. This book consists of a series of chapters that lacks a proper conclusion of Sahlins discoveries

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    specialties can be seen in most sociological treatises: "We divide up the discipline into a number of topics‚ each the subject of a chapter. These chapters are minimally integrated" (Calhoun‚ 1992‚ p. 185). Theoretical sociology is presented as a subfield disconnected from substantive domains: "General sociology has been relegated primarily to introductory textbooks and to a lesser extent to a sort of social theory that most practicing sociologists use but little in their work" (idem). For instance

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    contribute to it. This field contains many subfields. For example‚ forensic pathology‚ psychology‚ and anthropology. They all have different statistical references‚ like crimes committed in a certain country‚ or the number of bodies that are found in every year. They are all different‚ but comparable in one way. These subfields are within the forensic science discipline and deal with human beings. Forensic science‚ also called forensics‚ includes anthropology‚ biology‚ chemistry‚ engineering‚ genetics

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    | |Incorporation of many subfields beyond language teaching and language learning such as: language | |1980s |assessment‚ language policy and planning‚ language use in professional settings‚ translation‚ | | |lexicography‚ multilingualism‚ language and technology and corpus linguistics. | | |Incorporation of more subfields and drawing on supporting disciplines: Psychology

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