ANTH 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biological Anthropology, Primatology
15 Jan 2017
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We can define anthropology as the systematic study of humankind. Comes from the greek words anthropos (humans) and logia (knowledge/study of) Combines four different fields that bridge the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. The goal of all four fields is to understand the uniqueness and diversity of human behaviour around the world, and to discover the similarities of human beings in the past and in the present. The four fields provide anthropologists with a broad cross cultural perspective in the study of humanity everywhere. All four fields study culture, all are comparative in viewpoint and all involve fieldwork. Cultural anthropology: cultural similarities and differences among contemporary peoples around the world. Undertake ethnographic research, importance of the ethnographic moment. Linguistic anthropology: relationship between language and culture. Archaeology: studying past cultures through their material remains. Goals are to reconstruct culture history , past lifeways and study culture change.
