ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Earlobe, Biological Anthropology, Historical Linguistics
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Lecture 1: september 9 2013: biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, cultural anthropology, applied anthropology. Seven key concepts: holism (7 key concepts, fieldwork, comparison, cultural relativism / ethnocentrism, scientific / nomothetic anthropology, interpretive / reflexive anthropology, basic vs. applied research. Study of oldest of human remains: primatology. Comparative analogy, subsistence and locomotion, reproductive behaviour: contemporary human variation. Discrete traits: e. g. blood types, earlobe shape. Bone structure is varied through different primates. In terms of coloring, hair form, facial form, are there such things as race or just cultural. Superficial differences are less biologically different then culturally, Montague cobb his aim was to show that is behind the success of people, is not their genetics, big part of it is the upbringing, culture, upbringing, work. Things that were made by humans, tools, architecture, fabrics, art, hunting implements. At least 2 and a half million years ago humans were making tools: prehistoric, historical, experimental.
