American Anthropology
American anthropology has culture as its central and unifying concept. This most commonly refers to the universal human capacity to classify and encode human experiences symbolically, and to communicate symbolically encoded experiences socially. American anthropology is organized into four fields, each of which plays an important role in research on culture: # biological anthropology # linguistic anthropology # cultural anthropology # archaeology Research in these fields has influenced anthropologists working in other countries to different degrees. Biological anthropology Discussion concerning culture among Biological anthropology, biological anthropologists centers around two debates. First, is culture uniquely human or shared by other species (most notably, other primates)? This is an important question, as the theory of evolution holds that humans are descended from (now extinct) non-human primates. Second, how did culture evolve among human beings? Gerald Weiss noted t ...
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Gobustan Ancient Azerbaycan Full
Qobustan or Gobustan may refer to: * Gobustan District, Azerbaijan * Qobustan (town), administrative center of Gobustan District, Azerbaijan * Qobustan, Baku, a settlement and municipality in Azerbaijan ** Gobustan National Park, World Heritage Site near Qobustan, Baku ** Gobustan State Reserve, located in Qobustan, Baku * Qobustan, Absheron, a village in Azerbaijan {{geodis ...
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