AN 102- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
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Anthropology: study of humankind in all times and places: anthro = human, ology = the study of. 4 subfields: archeology, linguistic, cultural, biological (physical) Archeology = study and interpretation of behaviors of past and present cultures through : remains of past societies such as tools, shelters, and remains of animals eaten, termed artifacts & are used to reconstruct past behavior. Linguistic anthropology = the study of human language and its structure, history, and relation to social/cultural contexts: 3 main branches , descriptive, historical, language in its social/cultural context. Cultural anthropology = deals with variations in the cultures of populations in he present or recent past: culture = society"s shared ideas, values, and perceptions, learned; not inherited, cultural anthropologists . Includes legal, medical, economic, political and religious systems: gender, age, race and class divisions, perform ethnographies and ethnologies though participant observation, detailed descriptions of particular cultures, cross-cultural comparisons, develop theories explaining similarities/differences.
