ANTH 1150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Linguistic Anthropology, Paleoanthropology, Primatology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

Anthrop: man (people) + ology: logos (word) (study) Ethics: we try to harm no one. The four fields of anthropology: cultural/social anthropology, biological/physical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology (applied anthropology - practical applications in any of the subfields). Linguistics: study spoken languages, comparison and development, language families, linguistic change, historical linguistics, linguistic mechanism, brain/languages theory symbolism - meaning. Archaeology: study of past culture, physical remains, material culture, reconstruct the past, prehistoric, historical. Social: ethnography: anthropologist conduct research by hanging out with new cultures in which you do field work where you write things in a book and take pictures. This is then put into a book, an ethnography. It is also a practice, in which you are engaged in the process of research: ethnology: embodies the comparative aspect of anthropology. Ethnohistory: ethnic history, the past of any culture. Participant observation: the method of research: field work: leaving home and going elsewhere to do your research.