ANTH 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moe Williams, Anthropological Linguistics, Ethnology
7 May 2020
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A discipline of infinite curiosity about human beings. The term is greek for man, human, study of. Anthropologists are interested in both universals and differences in human populations. Anthropology has been around as a discipline for the last 100 years. It is broad in scope both geographically and historically. It is concerned with all varieties of people throughout the world. Also interested in people of all periods. All parts of the world that have humans are of interest. Used to concentrate only on non-western cultures, now they work in western cultures as well. A multifaceted approach to the study of human beings. Anthropologists study not only the varieties of the people but the many aspects of human experience as well. Anthropology is broader in scope than any other discipline having to do with humans. Anthropological curiosity mostly focuses on the typical characteristics of human groups and how to understand and explain them. The fields of anthropology two broad classifications:
