[ANTH 1150] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (17 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Tad Mc Ilwraith

Document Summary

Human culture and our history, ancestral lines, where we come from and how we got to where we are now, tribes, cultures, history, biology (primates). The study of human behaviour (sounds like every other social science) What differentiates anthropology from other areas of study: Geographically (studying human behaviour wherever it is) Anthropology studies humans across time and across the world. Hedican- how people adapted to different environments in the past. Reconstruction of behaviour based on what people left behind. How did people live in the past. Human behaviour in the context of our biology. Comparison of us and our biological relatives. Why are populations adapted to environments or susceptible to diseases. How is language used in specific situations. The study of how different people and the way they live influence others and the way they live, interaction. Descriptions of the way people live in different places at different times.