ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gabriel Sagard, Mound Builders, Edward Sapir
19 Sep 2016
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Food, sex and death (anthropology 1aa3, term 1, 2016) week 1. So anthropologists are the scholars who study humanity (?: sociology, political science, social sciences, religious studies, history, art history, humanities, classics, biology, medicine, sciences, kiniseology. A holistic study of human experience: environment (natural and adapted, economy (what they eat/produced/traded, politic (nature of power/social structure, religion (belief systems/ iconography/texts, notions of time/past (texts/symbols etc, multi-faceted discipline. Anthropology is avowedly multi-disciplinary: social theory, geology / chemistry, feminist studies, nuclear physics, history, climate studiesl, philosophy, economic theory, genetics, palaeo-pathology, materials" science, botany, political science, cultural geography. Key issue: what makes anthropology distinct: broader in temporal & geographic scope, interested in all people of all periods, methods- ethnographies, excavations & physical remains. Origins of anthropology: long considered humanity/human condition (plato, long considered our origins (gilamesh, eden, long considered nature of others" (explorers from e & w) The origins of anthropology (archeology: all human groups appear to have some curiosity about the past.
