ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gift Economy, Biopower, Tiv People
23 Oct 2016
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Indiana jones is a stereotypical portrayal of the study. The science of man and the science of culture . It is concerned with human cultural diversity and variation. It is not about studying exotic people and collecting facts and artifacts. It challenges the assumptions that we take for granted as natural or. It is concerned with how we make sense of our worlds and lives. It employs fieldwork and the result of fieldwork is presented in an. The study of what makes us human. The study of humans from past to present, draws on sciences and application of knowledge. They analyze human bones, artifacts to examine how the past was lived and how things lived in their natural environment. Seek to understand how humans interact with different environments, what causes disease and death. How we evolved from animals (monkeys, human ancestors in form of fossils) Interested in similarities and differences between humans across the world.
