ACCT 4440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rescue Archaeology, Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
7 Jun 2016
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Definition: the scientific study of extinct cultures through the examination of material artifacts and remains, although some recent archaeology, termed salvage archaeology, studies the material remains of still surviving societies. Example: adaptation to different environments to do cultural practices. Barker travelled to papua new guinea to study the culture. Definition: the branch of anthropology concerned with the bodily characteristics of homo sapiens and other primates. The scientific study of humans as a biological phenomenon, concerning the characteristics of present-day human populations, the study of the evolution of humans from early and later fossil evidence, and the relationships between humans and other primates. Example: t. v. shows such as c. s. i. and bones shows this. When they collect human bones and animals to analyze what happened, when, where, why and how. Definition: the study of behaviour through language, the study of how language shapes culture. Methods: observing people in conversations voice analysis recording/ video of conversations.
