ANTH 2200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ethnology, Sociolinguistics
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Anthropology - a discipline that studies humans, focusing on the study of differences and similarities, both biological and cultural, in human populations. Holistic approach to the study of human beings (many aspects of the human experience as an integrated whole) Types: biological (physical) anthropology - the study of humans as biological organisms, dealing with the emergence and evolution of humans and with contemporary biological variations among human populations. Human variation - the study of how and why contemporary human populations vary biologically. Fossils - the hardened remains of impressions of plants and animals that lived in the past: cultural anthropology - the study of cultural variation and universals in the past and present. Culture - the customary ways than a particular population or society thinks and behaves. Archaeology - study of past cultures (primarily through their material remains); seeks to reconstruct the daily life and customs of peoples who lived in the past and to trace and explain cultural changes.
