Introduction • -What are the areas of study for anthropology‚ psychology and sociology? Anthropology: In social or cultural anthropology the areas of study focus on linguistics and archaeology. In physical anthropology the areas of study focus on biological anthropology‚ primatology and forensic anthropology. Psychology: The main areas of study involve biological psychology‚ psychoanalytic psychology‚ behavioural psychology‚ humanistic psychology‚ evolutionary psychology and sociocultural psychology
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Anthropology Exam Review Anthropology: The scientific study of humans‚ including their origins‚ behaviour and physical‚ cultural and social development. Cultural Anthropology: Explore how culture has shaped people in the past and present day. Physical Anthropology: Explore where human species came from‚ how our bodies developed in the present form‚ and what makes us unique. Psychology: The scientific study of the human mind‚ mental states‚ and human behaviour. Sociology: The scientific study
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INTRODUCTION The Sherpas are an ethnic group of Tibetan origin who occupy the high valleys around the base of Mount Everest in northeastern Nepal. In the Tibetan language‚ Shar Pa means "people who live in the east‚" and over time this descriptive term has come to identify the Sherpa community. According to Sherpa tradition‚ the ethnic group migrated to Nepal from the Kham region of eastern Tibet over a thousand years ago. Historians‚ however‚ suggest that the Sherpas were nomadic herders who were
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Process Islamic D uties Training f or Life II T he Family as Guardian o f Desires Arranged Marriages Polygamy Divorce Woman’s Status l \l T he Family and Character-Building I V T he Family as Refuge Chapter II Chapter III Discussion Polyandry Inheritance Covering the Face Dress 3 F oreword T he W est has known Islam f or over thirteen centuries now‚ but i t has generally known i t in antagonistic terms as an enemy and as a threat. I t is n ot surpri’sing therefore that our
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Team Anthro Anthropology Notes Paper I Arava‚ Uday Table of Contents CSE Anthropology Syllabus 5 Paper - I 5 Notes 9 1 Meaning‚Scope and Development of Anthropology 9 2 Relationship with other disciplines 10 2.1 Anthropology(A) and social science 10 2.2 Anthropology and behavioral science 10 3 Main Branches of Anthropology: 11 3.1 Social cultural anthropology 11 3.2 Biological Anthropology 12 3.3 Archaeological anthropology - 13 3.4 Lingusitic Anthropology 14 4 Biological Factors in Human
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POLYGAMY IN IGBO CULTURE In the whole world‚ there are five continents. Africa is the world’s second largest continent‚ with 80 percent of its area in the tropics. Africa is usually portrayed as a dark continent historically and physically isolated from the rest of the world but it is not. Nigeria is one of the most important country in Africa. It is located in western Africa‚ bordering the gulf of Guinea between Benin and
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WORD ROOT INTRODUCTION TO THE WORD ROOT The following list presents some of the commonest word roots-mostly Greek and Latinthat appear in English. Learning to recognize these word roots is a great help in expanding your vocabulary. Many seeminglydifficultwords yield up their meanings easily when you recognize the word‚ roots that make them up. Excrescence‚ for example‚ contains the roots ex-‚ meaning out or out of‚ and meaning to grow; once you know this‚ the meaning of excrescence‚ an outgrowth
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neo-tolerance for politics‚ meaning that there is no absolute truth‚ what is true for one many not be true for another‚ so everything is true – just pick one. They are also strong supporters of women’s rights and matriarchy‚ sexual freedom; including polyandry‚ non-monogamy‚ homosexuality‚ and sexual activity among the teenage community. In the past few years there have been lawsuits filed by Pagans against things such as ‘In God We Trust‚ student led prayer‚ Christian symbols (such as the Cross)‚ The
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SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS What is a Social Institution? • A group of social positions • Connected by social relations • Performing a social role - a major sphere of social life organized to meet some human need Characteristics • Purposive • Relatively permanent in their content • Structured • A unified structure • Necessarily value-laden An institution is a relatively permanent structure of social patterns‚ roles‚ and relations that people enact in certain sanctioned and unified ways for the purpose
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Sociology Exam 3 1. Affirmative Action pos efforts to recruit minority grp mem/ women for jobs‚ promotions‚ edu opportunities; argued that discrimination will shift to Whites ex.: height/ residency requirements‚ testing differ w/ culture- sherpas: olf value independence‚ own homes/ good physical cond; fulani: old move to edge of homestead where ppl are buried‚ socially viewed as dead prejudice/ discrimination based on person’s age -endogamy: restrictions of mate selection to ppl in same
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