What is Anthropology?

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Across
  1. 1. When we suspend judgement in order to understand a culture.
  2. 4. The sub-field of anthropology that studies human biology, from the origins and evolution of humans as a species, to physical variations between contemporary populations (sans anthropology).
  3. 8. The tendency all people have to view our own culture and cultural practices as more normal and as superior to other cultures.
  4. 10. The subfield of anthropology that examines variations in cultures around the world (sans anthropology).
  5. 11. The entire way of life of a group of people.
  6. 12. The subfield of anthropology that uncovers material remains left by a culture in order to better understand it.
Down
  1. 2. __________ culture includes such things as desks, socks, glasses, or really any physical object in a culture.
  2. 3. The sub-field of anthropology that examines the language of a group of people and its relation to their culture (sans anthropology).
  3. 5. ____________ culture includes those parts of a culture that represent something else. Language, for example, is a system of symbols, where shapes represent sounds and words represent things or ideas.
  4. 6. Type of research used by cultural anthropologists to describe a culture.
  5. 7. The view that society is an integrated whole, and you need to study the parts and how they work together in order to understand a culture.
  6. 9. What does it mean to be _________? The question anthropologists seek to answer, while considering humans whenever and wherever they have lived.