ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Economic Anthropology, Flashcard, Primatology
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Defining anthropology: the study of human nature, human society, and the human past (lavenda and schultz, anthropology as the most scientific of the humanities, and the most humanistic of the. Types of evolution: biological, genetic- slow and over time, cultural- changes in the social structure. Culture- a set of learned behavior and traits that humans learn over time. Globalization- ideas and beliefs that spread out from its original culture. Before anthropology, people collected cross-cultural knowledge from travelers and missionaries. Anthropology developed as a way of gaining: a more systematic way of collecting knowledge about the peoples of the world, an understanding of similarities and differences between cultures, the ability to understand the self through studying others. Four subfields of anthropology: biological- focuses on the interplay between culture and biology in humans, non-human primates and in our extinct ancestors. Paleoanthropology, human biology, variation primatology, biological or biocultural. Anthropologists: cultural- explores cultural diversity among living societies, including our own.
