Salvage ethnography — is a branch of ethnography concerned with the practice of salvaging a record of what was left of a culture before it disappeared. Salvage ethnography is also a branch of anthropology and a subbranch of salvage anthropology.Some of the objectives… … Wikipedia
Visual anthropology — is a subfield of cultural anthropology that developed out of the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and since the mid 1990s, new media. While the term is sometimes used interchangeably with ethnographic film , visual… … Wikipedia
Observer effect (physics) — For other uses, see Observer effect. In physics, the term observer effect refers to changes that the act of observation will make on the phenomenon being observed. This is often the result of instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of… … Wikipedia
Normandy Archaeological Project — The Normandy Archaeological Project was a rescue excavation designed to preserve the archaeological history of the area before it became submerged by the construction of the Normandy Reservoir Dam through funding from the Tennessee Valley… … Wikipedia
George R. Fischer — George Robert Fischer (born May 4, 1937) is an American underwater archaeologist, considered the founding father of the field in the National Park Service. A native Californian, he did undergraduate and graduate work at Stanford University, and… … Wikipedia
Paleolithic — The Paleolithic This box: view · talk · edit ↑ before Homo (Plioc … Wikipedia
ARCHAEOLOGY — The term archaeology is derived from the Greek words archaios ( ancient ) and logos ( knowledge, discourse ) and was already used in ancient Greek literature in reference to the study of ancient times. In its modern sense it has come to mean the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Cultural relativism — Compare moral relativism, aesthetic relativism, social constructionism, and cognitive relativism. Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual s… … Wikipedia
Julian Steward — Infobox Person name = Julian Haynes Steward image size = 300px caption = Unidentified Native Man (Carrier Indian) (possibly Steward s informant, Chief Louis Billy Prince) and Julian Steward (1902 1972) Outside Wood Building, 1940 birth date =… … Wikipedia
Alfred L. Kroeber — Infobox Person name = Alfred L. Kroeber image size = 250px caption = Alfred L. Kroeber with Ishi in 1911. birth date = June 11, 1876 birth place = Hoboken, New Jersey death date = October 5, 1960 death place = education = Columbia University… … Wikipedia
