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understanding another culture in its own terms sympathetically enough so that the culture appears to be a coherent and meaningful design for living
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sets of learned behaviors and ideas that humans acquire as members of society, which humans use to adapt to and transform the world in which they live
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the feeling, akin to panic, that develops in people living in an unfamiliar society when they cannot understand what is happening around them
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the process by which human beings living with one another must learn to come to terms with the ways of thinking and feeling that are considered appropriate in their respective cultures
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the opinion that one’s own way of life is natural or correct and, indeed, the only true way of being fully human
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an extended period of close involvement with the people in whose language or way of life an anthropologist is interested, during which anthropologists ordinarily collect most of their data
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perspective on the human condition that assumes that mind and body, individuals and society, and individuals and the environment interpenetrate and even define one another
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observation the method anthropologists use to gather information by living as closely as possible to the people whose culture they are studying, while participating in their lives as much as possible
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critically thinking about the way one thinks, reflecting on one’s own experience
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the process by which human beings as material organisms, living together with other similar organisms, cope with the behavioral rules established by their respective societies