ANTH-101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sociolinguistics, Primatology, Materialism
14 Mar 2017
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Answers: anthropology is the study of humans. Anthropos=man, logos=study: biological, cultural, linguistic, archaeology, and applied anthropology, biological: the study of human/primate biology and evolution (includes the study of paleoanthropology, human biology, and primatology) Cultural: study of human diversity (focuses on the sets of learned behaviours and ideas that human beings acquire as members of a society) Linguistic: study of language in relation to broader cultural, historical, and biological contexts. Archaeology: study of the past via material culture (artifacts, features, fossils) It is not formally taught: commitment to explaining how the world works and to a separation of facts from values. Displacement: ability to refer to events and issues beyond the immediate present. Arbitrariness: lack of transparent distinction between the form of a symbol and its function/meaning (bleeding red example) Duality of patterning: units patterned in one way can be patterned in another way to create units at a different and more complex level.
