ANTA02H3 Lecture : Week 1 Lecture
Document Summary
Anthropology: overview: key concepts, five subfields of anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, cultural anthropology, applied anthropology. Key concepts: holism big background, perspective (best way to approach humanity is to look at how things interact with culture and society and what does it mean?, fieldwork microscopic focus (one subject/phenomenon) Interpretive anthropology [reflexive; postmodern] no universal validity of science: history and theology and criticism than scientific, emphasize cultural relativism (competing religions/discourses, basic (pursuit of academic knowledge) vs. applied research (practical outcome) The subfields of anthropology: biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, cultural / social anthropology, applied anthropology. Biological anthropology: paleoanthropology, primatology www. notesolution. com, contemporary human variation. Paleoanthropology = the study of the human fossil record/remains (skeleton, teeth, skull: requires knowledge of human primate, gives largest scale of humans (hundred of years, australopithecus afarensis, evolutionary timelines. Sahelanthropous tchadensis (oldest skull: tries to come up with evolutionary timelines (they are always changing with data)
