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Volume 1.qxd 9/13/2005 3:29 PM Page ix GGGGG LIST OF ENTRIES Aborigines Anthropic principle Apes, greater Aborigines Anthropocentrism Apes, lesser Acheulean culture Anthropology and business Apollonian Acropolis Anthropology and Aquatic ape hypothesis Action anthropology epistemology Aquinas, Thomas Adaptation, biological Anthropology and the Third Arboreal hypothesis Adaptation, cultural World Archaeology Aesthetic appreciation Anthropology of men Archaeology and gender Affirmative action Anthropology of religion studies Africa, socialist schools in Anthropology of women Archaeology, biblical African American thought Anthropology, careers in Archaeology, environmental African Americans Anthropology, characteristics of Archaeology, maritime African thinkers Anthropology, clinical Archaeology, medieval Aggression Anthropology, cultural Archaeology, salvage Ape aggression Anthropology, economic Architectural anthropology Agricultural revolution Anthropology, history of Arctic Agriculture, intensive Future of anthropology Ardrey, Robert Agriculture, origins of Anthropology, humanistic Argentina Agriculture, slash-and-burn Anthropology, philosophical Aristotle Alchemy Anthropology, practicing Arsuaga, J. 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Collectors Babylon Bruno, Giordano Colobines Bakhtin, Mikhail Buber, Martin Interspecies communication Balkans Buddhism Susan Savage-Rumbaugh Baluchistan Buechel, Eugene Communism Bates, Daniel G. Bunzel, Ruth Communities Bayang Medicine Man Burial mounds Complexity Becker, Gary S. Computers and humankind Behavior, collective Cannibalism Computer languages Benedict, Ruth Carbon-14 dating Comte, Auguste Ruth Benedict Cardiff giant hoax Condorcet, Marquis de Berdache Caribs Configurationalism Bergson, Henri Carpenter, C. R. Conflict Bermudez de Castro, J. M. Carson, Rachel Confucianism Big bang theory Carter, Howard Consciousness Binford, Lewis Roberts Caste systems Continental drift Bingham, Hiram Catastrophism Coon, Carleton S. Bioethics and anthropology Categorical imperative Copper Age Biogeography Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca Coptic monasticism Bioinformatics Cave art Cosmology and sacred landscapes Biological anthropology Cazden, Courtney B. 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