ANTH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
2 May 2019
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Introduction to anthropology: anthropology: study of human societies, cultures, holistic: integrates all that is known about humans and their activities, comparative: similarities/differences between human society. Field based: data from direct contact with people, sites, and animals: evolutionary: biological and cultural change in humans over time. Archaeology: biological anthropology: biological variation among modern humans and non-human primates, and their extinct ancestors. Natural disasters: bioarcheologists: human remains from archeological contexts. Activity patterns: primatology: study of non-human primates, paleoanthropology: study of extinct ancestors of humans. Tool making origin: dietary changes: eating meat. Social behaviour: social groups organized: cultural anthropology: cultural diversity among living societies and cultures. Learned behaviours shared by a group of people. Studying kinship, political organization, gender and sexuality, etc. Sociolinguists: variation in language, use relates to differences in gender, race, class: historical linguistics: development of languages. Document and preserve endangered languages: archaeologists study the human past via material culture. Incorporates variety of scientific disciplines: chemistry, biology, etc.
