ANTH 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociocultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Primatology

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Anthropology (ANTH)
• Course: ANTH 011
• Professor: Allen

Document Summary

The study of humankind in a cross cultural context. Study from a social perspective on how people from different cultures live. The study of material remains or artifacts of past human. Study things humans use make and discard. Explicitly interested in humans as biological creatures. How we came to be how we are through evolution. Comparison to other close living relatives primates. What we share with other animals - what makes us different from other animals. What makes us unique every biological species is unique. Study primates where they live in the wild field study. Use it to understand primates and human behavior. Refers to study of ancient record of humans. Digging in the dirt and finding bones. Digging for ancient past biological remains of humans and human ancestors. How tissues are put together and micro structure of how they grow. How these bones become part of fossil record. Study of fossils with focus on what diseases might be present.