Describe the Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Anthropology, and List

question 8

Essay

Describe the relationship between theory and practice in anthropology, and list reasons why applied anthropology should be or should not be recognized as a separate subdiscipline.Explain how it is different from the traditional subfields of anthropology.

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Definitions:

Hypothesis

An educated guess or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

Sick Leave Percentage

The ratio or percentage of an employee's work time missed due to illness.

P-value

The probability of observing a test statistic as extreme as, or more extreme than, the value observed under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true.

Sampling Variation

The variability in sample statistics from sample to sample due to randomness.