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The actions individuals take, both alone and in groups, in forming and transforming cultural identities are referred to as

Creole languages are commonly found in regions where different linguistic groups come into contact with one another.

Just as in other areas of anthropology, the study of language involves investigating what is or isn’t shared across human populations and why these differences or similarities exist. The linguist Noam Chomsky has argued that the human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language, so that all languages have a common structural basis. He calls this set of rules

The Clovis tradition – a sophisticated stone technology based on a sharp point that was fastened to the end of a hunting spear – flourished

Why was the broad-spectrum revolution a significant event in human evolution?

What is the genealogical method, and why did it develop in anthropology?  (Sentences required.  Kottak page citation required.)

The view that each element of culture, such as the culture trait or trait complex, has its own distinctive history, and that social forms (such as totemism in different societies) that might look similar are not comparable because of their different histories, is known as

Franz Boas’s famous biological studies of European immigrants to the United States revealed and measured phenotypical plasticity, showing that the environment and cultural forces could change human biology.

This chapter mentions the work of Wolf and Mintz, both students of Julian Steward, as illustrations of approaches that

Reflecting today’s world, in which people, images, and information move about as never before, fieldwork must be more flexible and done on a larger scale. The result of such fieldwork is often an ethnography that