ANTA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Forensic Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Osteology
5 Oct 2016
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Our bodies are well designed for our biological past, not our very different present. Cultural anthropology: the study of all aspects of human behavior: rooted in the enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Enlightenment: an eighteenth century philosophical movement in western europe that assumed a knowable order to the natural world and the interpretive value of reason as the primary means of identifying and explaining this order. Introduced concepts of primitive or traditional societies: ethnographies: detailed descriptive studies of human societies. Traditionally the study of non-western societies: medical anthropology: the subfield of cultural anthropology that explores the relationship between various cultural attributes and health and disease. Many medical anthropologists receive much of their training in physical anthropology: applied anthropology: practical applications pursued by anthropologists working both within and outside the university setting. Physical (biological) anthropology: the study of human biology within the framework of evolution and with an emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture: main origins of physical anthropology:
