ANTHROP 1AB3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Androcentrism, Genographic Project, Ethnic Cleansing
5 Feb 2016
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The systematic study of humankind in all times and places. Interested in prehistory- have the ability to study the past. Living/ interacting with people (1 year)- cultural or linguistic. Archaeology- the study of past societies and their cultures using material remains. Cultural- the study of contemporary cultures and societies: tools, ceramics, sites etc, culture is transmitted (learned behavior, methodology- participant observation (interviews, ethnography- a description of an aspect of culture within. Linguistics- studies the construction and use of language by society humans: descriptive linguistics- how language works, sociolinguistics- the relationship between language and, historical linguistics- how are languages related? social behavior in different cultures. Applied- the use of data gathered from the other subfields of anthropology to an effort to offer practical solutions to problems within modern societies: marketing, business, law, environmental assessments, grant mccracken, penny van esterik- research on breastfeeding.
