SRS 1110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Edward Burnett Tylor, Red Color, Emic And Etic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

Anthropological perspecive it is a theoreical orientaion and an approach that compares human socieies throughout the world (contemporary and historical, industrial and tribal). Anthropology integrated study of humanity, study human socieies as systemaic sums of theirs parts, as integrated wholes (this approach called holism). Tradiional anthropologist"s four-ield anthropology: physical anthropology: the study of human biology and evoluion. Interested in: geneics, evoluionary theory, the biology and behaviour of the primates, the group of animals that includes monkeys, apes, and humans, paleontology, the study of the fossil record. These anthropologists discuss the evoluionary origins and the neurobiology of religious experience: archaeology: the study of people who are known only from their physical and cultural remains gives insight into the lives of now exinct socieies. Evidence of religion in the ruins of ancient temples, art, and wriings of people: linguisic anthropology: the study of language, which, according to many anthropologists, is a unique feature of humans.