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| 503685294 | What is Religion? | set of beliefs and practices pertaining to supernatural beings or forces | |
| 503685295 | Supernatural | a force or existence that transcends the natural | |
| 503685296 | what is magic? | a ritual practice believed to compel the supernatural to act in a desired way | |
| 503685297 | what is witchcraft? | evil power inherent in certain individuals that permits them, without the use of magical charms or paraphernalia, to do harm or cause misfortune for others | |
| 503685298 | what is emic approach? | is the approach of the insider. insider may not view things the same way as the outsider does | |
| 503685299 | what is etic approach? | is the outsider looking in. | |
| 503685300 | unilineal evolution | the idea that each culture goes through the same stages of primitive to advanced (superstition to monotheism) | |
| 503685301 | animism | belief in spirit beings | |
| 503685302 | animatism | belief in impersonal supernatural forces like the power of a rabbits foot, knocking on wood etc. | |
| 504055786 | What is Anthropology? | the study of people, human culture, evolutionary aspects of human bio. Includes cultural, archaeological and physical | |
| 504055787 | What are the fields of Anthropology | 1. cultural 2. linguistic 3. archaeological 4. biological/physical | |
| 504055788 | cultural anthropology | the study of human culture. It is about the societies, both historic and current, and how they behave around each other | |
| 504055789 | Archaelogy | is the scientific study of past cultures and the way people lived based on the things they left behind. Culture is the shared ways of life learned by a group of people, including their language, religion, technology, and values. | |
| 504055790 | Linguistic Anthropology | look at culture through language and attempts to understand underlying cognitive processes through the use and structure of language and body language | |
| 504055791 | Physical Anthropology | study of evolution through human biology | |
| 504055792 | Primatology | study of primates | |
| 504055793 | ethnology | study of nonhuman behavior | |
| 504055794 | Paleoanthropology | human evolutionary studies; the study or origins and predecessors of human beings | |
| 504055795 | Gentics | Is the field of biology devoted to understanding how characteristics are transmitted from parents to offspring. | |
| 504055796 | Paleopathology | the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence) | |
| 504055797 | Osteology | The study of the bones and the disorders and diseases of the skeletal system | |
| 504055798 | emic | approach of studying a culture's behavior from the perspective of an insider (inside their own culture) | |
| 504055799 | etic | approach of studying a culture's behavior from the perspective of an outsider (looking at a different culture from yourself) | |
| 504055800 | empirical approach | A study conducted via careful observations and scientifically based research. | |
| 504055801 | hypothesis | an educated guess that requires verification | |
| 504055802 | theory | partially proven idea, well tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations | |
| 504177062 | Mana | An impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects. Ex. luck , charismatic power |
