ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Linguistic Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Bilateral Descent

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1001
• Professor: Kristin Bright

Document Summary

Survival depends on what we learn from one another (ex. socially learned behaviour or culture) How we go about asking this question and exploring it is not so different. Neil harbission talks about eyeborg - electronic device he invented that allows colours to be perceived as sounds. I don"t feel i"m wearing technology i feel i am technology . What does anthropology mean: anthropos = human being, the study of what it means to be human, 19th century anthropology emerged as total human science logia = study of. The study of human cultures based on material residues. Linguistic anthropology: how language in uences social life by, shaping communication, constituting social identity and group membership, organizing large-scale cultural beliefs and ideologies, developing common cultural representations of natural and social worlds. Sub- elds: paleoanthropology, human biology (evolutionary biology, primatology (primate behaviour, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, forensic anthropology, skeleton biology and osteology, genetics (evolutionary genetics, paleo-genetics)