ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sociocultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Participant Observation
25 Jan 2017
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It is a comparative of people and why differences exist (biological and social reasons) Studies all aspects of the biology and behaviour of the human species (and our closest relatives), past and present. Evolutionary perspective to look at things in the deep past. Biocultural perspective to look at the interaction between biology and culture. Past societies and their cultures using material culture (ex: tools, ceramics, sites) Prehistoric archeology (usually no written documents or oral histories, evidence comes from artifacts co(cid:373)e fro(cid:373) (cid:858)sites(cid:859)(cid:895) Historical: work on more recent societies, integrate historical evidence (=wriiten) Culture is defined as transmitted learned behaviour. Ethnography-a description of an aspect of a culture within a society. The construction and use of language by human societies. Sociolinguistics-the relationships between language and social behaviour. How have they changed over time? (each subfield has sub disciplines within and between them) Sampling-usually do not excavate the entire site. Evidence/artifacts are recorded, labelled, photographed, and mapped systematically.
