ANTH 100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 92 pages long!)

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Maria Liston

Document Summary

Exams cover a mix of class and text. Biological anthropology: study of human skeletons, primates, evolution. Archaeology: study of past human societies, does the same as cultural anthropologists except on societies that no longer exist anymore. *can relate to real world problems as there are specific areas that are tourist destinations based on previous societies that lived there - this is a real world problem. Archaeologists are having problems with storage and availability. Cultural anthropology: *largest field; study human society, human interactions, trying to understand human beings, Applied anthropology: taking all the anthropological studies from the various subfields and looking at them in the real world. Work with all of the subfields in practical ways to deal with real world problems. Applied anthropology: taking all of the fields and looking at them in the real world. Focuses on ordinary, functioning society, helping us to understand now normal can vary across cultures.