ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Linguistic Anthropology, Franz Boas, Biological Anthropology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

The study of humankind in all times and places. Anthropologists try to produce reliable information about people and their behaviour, about what makes them different and what they all share in common. There are four different traditional fields of anthropology (biological, archaeologists, linguistic, and socio-cultural anthropologists). Biological anthropologists trace the evolutionary development of humans as biological organisms and investigate biological variations within the species (as well the physical and behavioral nature of our closest biological relatives). Archaeologists try to explain human behavior by studying material culture. Linguistic anthropologists study the way language is used for practicing, developing, and transmitting culture. Socio-cultural anthropologists are concerned with contemporary human cultures as they have been observed, experienced, and discussed with the people whose cultures they seek to understand. Lastly, some consider applied anthropology to be a field. Applied anthropology is concerned with applying anthropological knowledge to the real world.