ANT 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biological Anthropology, Ethnocentrism, Franz Boas
15 Jan 2018
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Study of the diversity of human bodies and behavior in the past and present. Physical: study of diversity of human bodies in the past and present, including physical adaptation, group or race characteristics, and human evolution. Primatology: the study of the physical/behavioral characteristics of the category of primates. Archaeology: the study of diversity of behavior in the past, based on traces left behind by humans or societies. Artifacts: physical objects that are portraits ex. Ecofacts: the environment remains from past human social contexts. Garbology: the study of contemporary trash to examine how humans, make, consume, and discard objects in the present. Linguistic anthropology: the study of diversity of the human language in the past, present, and relation to social groups, practices and values. Also how values are represented in language. Cultural anthropology: the study of the diversity of human behavior in present. Anthropology and modern life (1928) by franz boas (1858-1942): social issues.
