ANTH 1003 : Midterm
Document Summary
Goals of anthropology: describe, analyze, and explain different societies and cultures, show how groups have adapted to their environments and gave meaning to their lives, comprehend the entire human experience. Anthropology"s four fields: archaeology, study of past cultures through their material remains, fossils, tools, built structures, waste, historical archeology: may use written records, types of research, study the history of the peopling of the americas. When and from where did they arrive: african burial grounds in manhattan: what was life really like for the enslaved and free africans living in early new york city (1690s 1794), cultural resources management. Study and identification of skeletized or badly decomposed human remains. Faces lab at lsu (forensic anthropology and. Kinship by krista van vleet: how do young indian-american teenagers think about and express their identity? (desi land: teen culture, Looked at how members of one small village began to understand aids as it first emerged. Created an organization called partners in health.
