ANTHROP 2PA3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Garbology, Emic And Etic

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 2PA3
• Professor: Andy Roddick

Document Summary

The study of humans as biological organisms, considered in an evolutionary framework; The study of the form, function, and social context of language. The study of how people used to live based on the materials, or artifacts, they left behind. These artifacts, art, implements, and other objects of material culture form the basis for the analysis and interpretation of ancient cultures. The study of human societies in a cross-cultural perspective. The amazing variety of ways in which people lead their daily lives at the heart of the field. How the trash told a different story from what the people said. They were telling lie wether it was intentional or not. E(cid:373)phasises the speaker"s (cid:894)or (cid:272)ulture (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er"s(cid:895) u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g of (cid:449)hat the(cid:455) do a(cid:374)d (cid:449)h(cid:455). E(cid:373)phasises the outside (cid:862)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)(cid:863) (cid:448)ie(cid:449) a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) of (cid:272)ultural (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour. Traces of human past, through our documentation of them become a record. Lifeway/behavioural assemblage - > discard - > archaeological assemblage - > sample assemblage.