ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Primatology, Sociolinguistics, Biological Anthropology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

The study of human nature, human society, human language, and the human past. The actual practice of it is mostly data collection. Most anthropologists emphasize that human beings are biocultural organisms. Fields of anthropology: a lot of the time they do overlap, and they also depend on each other. To classify the world"s population into different races. How our biology determine who we are. Study cultural diversity in all living human societies. Gather information by fieldwork (long term), participating in social activities and observing. Methodology (how): participant observation, interviews. important to make informed questions. Ethnography : a description of an aspect of culture within a society. Approach cultural diversity by relating various forms of language into their cultural contexts and the construction and use of language. Gather information by fieldwork, participating in social activities and observing. Sociolinguistics : the relationship between language and social behaviour in different cultures. You may look at the use of language and gender/class.