ANTH 045 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biological Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Linguistic Anthropology
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How did anthropology begin: anthropology emerged in europe and north america as an academic discipline devoted to the systematic observation and analysis of human variation. The disruptions of industrialization in europe and america. The growing importance of europe"s far- ung colonies with large indigenous populations whose land, mineral wealth and labor europeans and americans wanted to control. The disruptions of industrialization: industrialization refers to the economic process of shifting from an agricultural economy to a factory-based one. Disrupted american and european society by bringing large numbers of rural people into towns and cities to work in factories. Most people in the west were rural and farming > industries > changed whom individuals would marry, activities they would do during the day, role of religion in their daily lives. The theory of evolution: evolution refers to the captive changes organisms make across generations. Wednesday, september 6, 2017: colonialism-the historical practice of more powerful countries claiming possession of less powerful ones.
