ANTH100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eskimo Kinship, Iroquois Kinship, Kinship Terminology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Gotz Hoeppe

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Anthropology 100 week 1, jan 7th 2017. Four-fields of anthropology (four perspectives on being human) Biological anthropology/physical anthropology: the study of human evolution, variation and biocultural adaptation. Archaeology: the study of past human material culture. Linguistic anthropology: the sociocultural study of language. Sociocultural anthropology/cultural anthropology: the study of human society and culture. ** note: see figure 1. 1 - the four fields of anthropology; the divisions between them are not sharp, indicating that their boundaries overlap (see p. 5 of text) **note: philosophers, psychologists, medical doctors, religion scholars, sociologists, smf students, political scientists, modern language experts, and legal experts also study humans. Anthropologists take a holistic, comparative, evolutionary, and field-based approach to human study. Holistic adjective: having regard for the whole of something rather than just to parts of it: a holistic approach to life. 2. (medical) treating the whole person rather than just the symptoms of a disease: holistic medicine. Anthropology 100 week 2, jan 9th 2017.