Concept information
Preferred term
applied anthropology
Definition
- Although applied anthropology has a variety of meanings, generally the term refers to what professionally trained anthropologists do when they are involved in solving practical or policy problems found in society at large. This problem solving can be done either indirectly in support of an agency or sometimes directly. [Source: Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia; Applied Anthropology]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- action anthropology
- aesthetic appreciation
- ALFRED: The ALlele FREquency Database
- alternative health care
- anthropology and business
- anthropology and the third world
- artificial intelligence
- bioethics and anthropology
- bioinformatics
- biomedicine
- biometrics
- carbon-14 dating
- careers in anthropology
- clinical anthropology
- dating techniques
- Dendrochronology
- dispute resolution
- DNA testing
- ecology and anthropology
- economic anthropology
- economics and anthropology
- environmental ethics
- ethics and anthropology
- ethnoecology
- ethnomedicine
- ethnopharmacology
- ethnopsychiatry
- ethnoscience
- ethnosemantics
- field methods
- forensic anthropology
- forensic artists
- geomagnetism
- history of anthropology
- human behavioral ecology
- human rights and anthropology
- human rights in the global society
- intercultural education
- irrigation
- justice and anthropology
- law and anthropology
- medical genetics
- museums
- native studies
- new dating techniques
- paleomagnetism
- political anthropology
- potassium-argon dating
- practicing anthropology
- radiometric dating techniques
- relative dating techniques
- rights of indigenous peoples today
- social anthropology
- tutankhamun and zahi hawass
- twin studies
- United Nations and anthropology
- uranium-lead dating
- urban anthropology
- urban ecology
- visual anthropology
- women's studies
- Y-STR DNA
- zoos
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/applied_anthropology
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