ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Franz Boas, Homo Sapiens, Historical Linguistics
30 Sep 2020
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Power, government, family class, race, gender are all structures of power. The four fields of anthropology, franz boas made this too: Physical anthropology (also includes forensic and biological): studies how humans have evolved. We are all homo sapiens and a continuous biological group. Race does not hold any water because we are all human. It also addresses how humans and their ancestors. Paleoanthropologist"s: study how humans have evolved and changed as a species over time. Analyzes fossilized bones to compare genes and physical features. Through all of this study, we got our theory that humans evolved in. Primatology: is the study of primates that aren"t humans. We look at primate behavior for clues about early human behaviors. Archaeology: they study people through what was left behind. Historic archaeology: focuses on more recent humans who have writing. The archaeologists found that the people of jamestown were cannibals but they ate people who were already dead.
