ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Clan Maclean, Mumbojumbo, Play Hard
10 Apr 2014
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Lecture 1, jan. 06: introduction to anthropology. Career: 2002/2003 doctoral research in morocco, 2007 doctorate of the university of. First time i am teaching introduction (difficult since you have to present a whole. Discipline, in the case of anthropology one not familiar to everybody) Because some of it is deeply relevant to anthropology (not everything in equal measure). Anthropology literally translated means the science of man or better: the science of humanity (greek: anthropos is human being , logos is speech, reason, science ). This extreme diversity has lead in the north american context into a division of anthropology into four fields: archeology (indiana. Jones); physical anthropology ( bones ); linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. We will be concerned only with the latter two in this course, especially with cultural anthropology: since it is concerned with human beings, anthropology is different from the natural sciences. For example, it doesn"t matter whether the chemist doing research on crystals is 30 or.
