ANT-1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Human Evolution, Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Document Summary
Viewed from perspective of all peoples and all times. Focuses on material remains and the processes behind them. Studies the construction and use of language by human societies. Language defined as a set of written or spoken symbols that refer to things. Studies all aspects of present and past human biology. Deals with the evolution of and variation among human beings and their relatives. No anthropologist is an expert in all four branches of anthropology. All anthropology acknowledges the diversity of humans in all contexts. Within the field there is a commitment to the notion that humans are both cultural and biological beings. Humans are a result of a combination of inherited (biological) traits and cultural (learned) traits. Anthropology focuses on a broad, comparative (holistic) approach. The study of human biological evolution and human biocultural variation. Each person is a product of evolutionary history. Includes all biological changes that have brought humans to present form.
