Anthropology Midterm

researcher become a participant in the culture or context being observed Two different kinds of data concerning human behavior

studying human culture is one in which the members of the culture being studied are the main source of information used to understand the cu

— studying human culture employs existing theories and perspectives that originated from outside the culture being studied. In other words,

centralized form of government; monumental public works (taxes). Part is invested in war

investigation of the human past by excavating and analyzing materials remains. divided in two parts prehistoric and historic

Aztec agriculture in the heart of the empire used chinampas for their crops. Chinampa is a method of farming that used small, rectangular ar

when farmers cut into hillsides to create level plains to plant crops without them getting washed away in the rainy season

primarily concerned with the evolution of the human species (homo sapiens sapiens) and the relationship between biology and cultural behavio

the scientific study of human fossils; whie paleoanthropology— the investigation of human biological evolution

Specialize in the evolution, anatomy, adaptation and social behaviors of primates, the taxonomic order to which humans belong

method of growing food in which wild or forested land is clear cut and remaining vegetation is burned

A system of cultivation in which soil nutrients are restored by allowing the forest to regrow.

(corns, beans, squash, potato, tomato, chili, llamas, duck, turkey) The adaptation of an animal or plant through breeding in captivity to a

A society that depends on an agricultural economy and examples are gardeners, low level farmers and industrial agriculture