ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sociocultural Anthropology, Adam Kadmon, Primatology
4 Feb 2016
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There are four main subfields of anthropology: physical anthropology, archaeology, sociocultural anthropolgy, linguistic anthropology. Sociocultural anthropology: study of culture and societies, and recent past as a learned behaviour. Human culture and how it is transmitted through the generations. Has a use of participant observation which involves becoming a. This study of anthropology can take place anywhere where there part of one"s society in order to study them is people. Archaeology: the study of past cultures and societies. Archaeology can be done with the use of materials that were left. Two divisions of archaeology: behind in ancient civilizations (pots, tools, etc. : prehistoric: almost no written evidence; artefact based, historical: written evidence of the past is available. Archaeologists no longer dig up the whole excavation site as they: these archaeologists may have more technology than we want to leave evidence for future archaeologists do at this time. Linguistic anthropology: study of language in human societies.
