ANT 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Shared Experience, Historical Linguistics, Stanford University Centers And Institutes
6 Nov 2015
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Four sub-fields of anthropology: biological (physical) anthropology, archaeology. As a reflection of evolutionary adaptations, a record of behaviors, and a clue to solving crimes: genetics, the study of the biological blueprints that influence the inheritance of physical characteristics. Investigate diseases, local biological adaptations, and human origins. Archaeology: study material remains ( material culture ) in order to describe and explain human behavior, study tools, pottery, and other artifacts and features (e. g. , fire pits, houses) as the testimony of earlier cultures. Bioarchaeology: the study of human remains as a record of cultural processes. Linguistic anthropology: studies human languages, structural linguistics how languages work, sociolinguistics how languages are used, historical linguistics how languages change over time. Cultural anthropology the study of different patterns in human behavior, thought, and feelings focuses on humans as culture-producing and culture-reproducing creatures two main components: ethnography and ethnology.
