ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology
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The field of inquiry that studies human culture and evolutionary aspects of human biology; includes cultural anthropology, human biology, archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology. The study of all aspects of human behaviour (humans, human-animal, human-thing) Culture- all aspects of human adaptation including technology, traditions, language, religion, and social roles. Culture is a set go learned behaviours; it is passed from one generation to at the next through learning and not biological or genetic means. In cultural anthropology, ethnography is traditionally the study of non western societies. Later became the basis for comparisons between societies. Early ethnographers were narratives emphasizing such phenomena as religion, ritual, myth, use of symbols, substances and dietary preferences, technology; gender roles, child rearing practices, taboos, medical practices, and how kinship was reckoned. The focus of cultural anthropology changed considerably with the global, social, political, and economic upheavals of the 20th century. Study of how languages influences social life, and the unwritten languages.
