ANT 2511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Primatology, Premolar, Scientific Method
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Cultural anthropology: the study of cultures and societies of human beings and their very recent past. Traditional cultural anthropologists study living cultures and present their observations in an ethnography. Archaeology: the study of past societies and their cultures, especially the material remains of the past, such as tools, food remains, and places where people live. Linguistic anthropology: the study of language, especially how language is structured, evolution of language, and the social and cultural contexts for language. Physical anthropology: also called biological anthropology, physical anthropology is the study of human evolution and variation, both past and current. Focuses on material remains and the processes behind them. Archaeologist best know for study of material remains artifacts- from past cultures. Language defined as a set of written or spoken symbols. Sociolinguisitcs: popular subfield, investigates social context of language. Physical anthropologists who examine skeletons to identify victims are working in forensic anthropology.
