ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Anthropology, Radiometric Dating, Biological Anthropology
12 Jan 2017
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Holistic approach: (how everything is interconnected/how it fits together) The study of the physical remains of past or prior human activity. Material objects and what it meant to ancestors (study of garbage) Hedican how people adapt to different environments in the past. Study of human behaviour in context of biology (we are animals) Questions: when do we appear in fossil record. Questions (ow is language used in specific situations. Study of culture(cid:523)s(cid:524) (ow different groups of people and how they live influence the way other live (comparison, influence and interaction) The written description of one particular culture. What is ethnocentrism: (what are the issues for anthropologists?) Judging others based on your own experiences, standards, values. Universal needs are violated (makes anthropologist want to jump in) Way of working towards not being ethnocentric. Other cultures must be understood in their terms. Understand other people based on their values, experiences. Understand who gains and who is harmed.
