ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Clifford Geertz, Forensic Anthropology, Applied Anthropology
18 Apr 2017
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An anthropologists is a scientist who studies how people live together. Origins of anthropology is rooted in curiosity. Scholars suggest that anthropology really originated with the ancient greeks, such as. Pythagoras, plato, and archimedes, whose curiosity about the natural world led to important discoveries in mathematics, philosophy, and physics. The unexamined life is not worth living. socrates. The task of anthropology is to somehow understand how it is we understand understandings not our own. clifford geertz. Ethnographic research: interests kinship ties, family organization, leadership patterns, and religious life. Anthropology today has evolved into a multifaceted discipline. Physical and biological anthropology is based on the fact that human beings are mammals and biological members of the animal kingdom. Primatologists recognize that humans are primates who are closely related to the other great apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. Medical anthropology is a field of physical anthropology that combines biological, social, and cultural factors.
