ANTH 1001 Chapter : Anthropology
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Trying to understand what it means to be human. Biocultural approach: recognizes the relationship between what humans have inherited genetically and what they learn culturally* Product of what we"re made of (genes) and what we"ve been exposed to (cultural) Holistic: something that is concerned with a whole system: takes into account their biology and behavioral systems (all aspects)>everything. Fieldwork: going out to another culture and studying their behaviors, even participating; studying in a museum, excavating sites to learn about past, library/archives; analyzing materials in a lab. Anthropology in america is divided into 4 subfields: linguistic anthropology: focuses on language and communication, you"re ok vs. flicking off> body language, origin of language, sex differences in speech. 2. cultural (socicultural) anthropology learned behavior; distinct among groups; passed down through generations; evolutionary lots of specializations- medical, economic (behavior) 3. archeology: studying past human behavior/cultures based on the material remains of what they left behind (arrowheads, pottery, ceramics )
