Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Shifting Cultivation, Biological Anthropology, Applied Anthropology

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1020E
• Professor: Dan Jorgensen

Document Summary

Readings covered: kottak chapters 1-3 & 5-7; lee chapters 1-6 & 8 & appendix a. Some of the definitions were written down afterwards and are not included here. Sociocultural anthropology the study of human society and culture, the subfield that describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities, and differences. Linguistic anthropology the study of language in its social and cultural context, across space and over time. Archaeology reconstructs, describes, and interprets human behaviour and cultural patterns through material remains. Biological anthropology the subject matter of human biological diversity in time and space. Applied anthropology applied anthropology encompasses any use of the knowledge and/or technique of the four subfields to identify, assess, and solve practical problems. Ethnography research that requires field work to collect data, often descriptive, and group/community specific. Ethnology uses data collected by a series of researchers, usually synthetic, and comparative/cross-cultural.