ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Molecular Anthropology, Primatology, Osteology
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The study of the human experience from multiple perspectives (lewis et al. , 2013) Culture: human behavior that is learned and shared by members of a society, not biologically inherited, we learn the values, beliefs, norms, etc. , when we were at infancy: enculturation. Ethnographies: study of non-western society(traditionally)/descriptive studies of. 4 subfields of anthropology: sociocultural human societies. There is an intricate link between language with culture: archaeology. The study of material remains left by cultures, primarily of the past. Pre-historical : study cultures that existed before the invention of writing. Historical: examine archaeological and documents with written evidence. Public archeology: arch. research conducted for the public good as part of cultural resource management(crm) and heritage management programs: biological/physical anthropology. Biological study of humans and their relatives within the framework of evolution and it"s relationship to culture. Includes: modern human variation humans as primates human ancestry. Study of human evolution, particularly through fossil remains: molecular anthropology. Genetics is crucial to understanding evolutionary relationships.
