ANTH 18630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Molecular Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Bipedalism
14 Sep 2018
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Anthropology is the study of humankind that studies: modern humans, ancient humans, and non-human primates. 4 subfields of anthropology: cultural (seeing actual cultures in action/physical things happen, archaeology (creating a story, biological anthropology, linguistics. Culture is knowledge because we are not born knowing things-we learn culture. Cultural anthropologists collect information about a group of people, they gather their ideas and and their habits. Archaeology- the study of past humans, usually through their material culture: they use the old things to learn the processes that created them, and why they were made, ex: foundations, toys, plates, cups, pottery, old latrine (toilets) Linguistics- the study of how languages are constructed and used by people. It is a symbolic way of communicating, language is part of a culture because we are not born knowing it. Biological anthropology- we study how humans evolved, and how different groups of modern humans differ from each other in their biology.
