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anthropology

vr.tr.anthropology · INF.KNW

Let an agent handle anthropology by branch, methods, ethics and applications, respectfully of communities studied.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle anthropology by branch, methods, ethics and applications, respectfully of communities studied.

The scientific study of humanity, including human societies, cultures, languages, biology and evolution, past and present; branches include social and cultural, biological, linguistic, archaeological and applied anthropology.

What it is for: Understanding human diversity, culture and evolution.

It can be conduct ethnographic fieldwork; study human remains in forensic contexts; apply findings in health, development and design; teach and publish.

Distinguishing features

Holistic study of humans

Fieldwork and participant observation

Strong ethics codes

Past links with colonialism and race science are acknowledged

What it looks like

Fieldwork, ethnographies, museum collections and laboratory work.

How it is recognised

Branch names

Ethnographic methods

Historical physical measurement methods are outdated in part

Related models

is a kind of - discipline

social science

studies - objects

human, culture, society

uses - method

ethnography

is related to - fields

sociology and archaeology

In practice

Families and kinds

social and cultural anthropology

biological anthropology

linguistic anthropology

archaeology (in some traditions)

applied and forensic anthropology

Standards and regulation

AAA and ASA ethics codes

Research ethics review

Repatriation laws such as NAGPRA

Failure modes and hazards

Harm to communities studied

Discredited race typologies

Lack of informed consent

Also called

entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnographypelvimetryapplied anthropologyforensic anthropologykinanthropologysomatotypologydemographic anthropologycognitive anthropologyCornell-Peru projectbusiness anthropologylegal anthropologyforensic osteologypedagogical anthropologyMāori anthropologyspatial cosmologyanthropology of the ancient worldanthropology of expressionscriminal anthropologyanthropology of mediaanthropology of tourismbranch of anthropologyevolutionary anthropologydesign anthropologyfunctional anthropologylandscape anthropologypastoral anthropologyanthropology of technologyanthropogeneticspsychoanthropologydevelopment anthropologyAnthropology of human rightswealthologyparanthropologyTechno-anthropologyAmerican anthropologymedical anthropologycultural materialismliminalityarchaeological anthropologypsychological anthropology

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.anthropology

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Branch Which anthropology.

Branches differ.

Field

Cultural, biological.

Field

Branch.

  1. Which branch of anthropology is meant? definition
  2. What does it study? definition

Methods

Fieldwork and lab.

Methods

Methods.

  1. Which methods are used? definition
  2. Are any outdated or discredited? boundary
Ethics Communities.

Ethics protects communities.

Consent

Informed consent.

Consent

Consent.

  1. Did communities give informed consent? boundary
  2. Who owns the data? provenance

Repatriation

Remains and objects.

Repatriation

Repatriation.

  1. Are human remains or objects subject to repatriation? boundary
  2. Under which law? provenance
Application Uses.

Anthropology is applied.

Applied

Health and design.

Applied

Applied anthropology.

  1. Where is anthropology applied? definition
  2. With what results? provenance

Forensic

Identification.

Forensic

Forensic anthropology.

  1. How does forensic anthropology support identification? definition
  2. Who is qualified? boundary
History Discipline history.

History matters.

Past

Colonial links.

Past

Discipline history.

  1. How has the discipline confronted its colonial past? provenance
  2. Which sources discuss it? provenance

Scholarship

Current work.

Scholarship

Current scholarship.

  1. What are current debates? provenance
  2. Which journals lead them? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should branches be separate entries?
  • How should outdated methods be marked?
  • How should community consent be represented?
Draft as JSON