ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Forensic Anthropology, Linguistic Description, Historical Linguistics
17 Jan 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Methods: long term fieldwork, excavation, or living/interacting with people. 2: commitment to holism, exploring all aspects of a society. Interest in prehistory , anthropologists study the past and the future. What forces in the past has shaped us. What do all humans have in common. Culture is defined as transmitted, learned behaviour. Ethnography- description of an aspect of culture within a society. The study of past societies and their cultures using material remains. Studies the construction and use of language by human societies. Sociolinguistics- the relationship between language and social behaviour. Studies all aspects of the biology and behaviour of the human species, past and present. When and where do we see the first evidence for humans. Indigenous group of approximately 30,000 people in amazonian regions of brazil and. Today- some live in westernized villages and others in traditional villages. How we depict people in our writing or through film/pictures.
