ANTHRO 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Knowledge Economy, Osteology, Primatology
17 Nov 2016
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Cultural: holism- highly contextualized understanding of their research subjects which involves the insight of multiple subfields. Archaeology: material culture, prehistoric, historic, contemporary studies. Linguistic: structural (how language is structured and languages compared); social (people identifying in relation to language) 30 yrs ago, you can get a high school degree and get a job, now you need college deg. If there was a metric on how much debt does avg. student leave w/ We need to do this b/c we are all in competition with each other. Education produces good workers who can compete in the global economy. Hands on skills, cultural competency, critical thinking skills, fast growing area for employment. The study of human beings/people; anything and everything about people. Participant observation: long term fieldwork and research. Outsider (etic description of a behavior or belief; trying to be culturally neutral) and insider(emic where you are immersed in culture) pov. 4 field approach, which was only unique to us anthro.
