ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Birutė Galdikas, Jane Goodall, Biological Anthropology

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

Document Summary

Studies the construction and use of language by human societies. Language on a word-by-word basis and what they mean, how sentences are constructed in different languages (e. g. gendered language) Sociolinguistics: the relationship between language and social behaviour in different cultures: how diff. identities impact how we speak and how we form language. E. g. class background (accent, word choice, vocabulary, etc. Historical linguistics: how languages are related to each other. Studies all aspects of biology and behaviour of the human species (and our closest relatives) past and present. Study; human evolution, forensics, primatology, medical anthro (human health from a cultural perspective) and other areas: e. g. Medical anthro and health of children in hamilton and s. asia. No anthropologist is an expert in all four branches of anthro. Many do research that crosses over the subfields (interdisciplinary) Anthro investigates the diversity of humans in all contexts. View that humans are both cultural and biological beings.