ANTH 1150 Lecture 1: Anthro notes
2 Mar 2018
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Non-western peoples (history of looking at indigenous peoples) Holistic perspective, looks at people, their behaviours, at the point of view of everything people do. Norms , basically rules of behaviour that everyone in a group agrees on. We as humans are very similar in how we live. 1)archeology: the study of human behaviour by looking at the material objects, the physical objects people leave behind. Based on physical remains of past or prior human activity. What people leave behind after they have used them ( study of garbage ). Ed hedican > how people adapted to different environments. They reconstruct behaviours, gure out how those things could of been used. Methods > systematic diggings, dates and ages of objects (chemical analysis: biological anthropology: starts with we are all biological creatures, we are all animals. Evolution > when do we show up? (ex. what happened to the neanderthals?)
