ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ancient Dna, Sociolinguistics, Lactose Intolerance
14 Oct 2016
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Engagement with human differences from the perspective of lived experience, past, present and future. It is about how anthropologists use their information to people of the present and the future. Concerned with the unity and diversity of humanity (and related primates) and of human culture and society from a comparative and global perspective. The most scientific of the humanities, the most humanistic of the sciences. In most simple form anthropology is the study of humanity. Stereotype: westerners (caucasian) working in other countries to learn about other cultures (in the past this was true, westerners only focused on non- western cultures) Now, there is more emphasis on studying the western culture. Must study ourselves as the cultures of the west are equally as constructive (many traditions, beliefs, that cause why western people do what they do) Globalization is important - many of our goods are produced across the globe, we can email across the globe, we can travel across globe.
