[ANTHROP 1AA3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 24 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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The study of contemporary cultures and societies. Culture is define as transmitted, learned behaviour. Methodology ethnology & participant observations: studying groups of people and their social systems. Ethnography a description of an aspect of culture within a society. The study of past societies and their cultures using material culture (e. g. tools, ceramics, sites) Using material remains people have left behind. Usually no written documents or oral histories. E(cid:448)ide(cid:374)ce co(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) artifacts reco(cid:448)ered fro(cid:373) (cid:858)sites(cid:859) Sampling usually do not excavate the entire site. Evidence/artifacts are recorded, labelled, photographed, & mapped systematically. Excavation method depends on challenges/problems associated with site. Studies the construction and use of language by human societies. Studies thing such as: structural linguistics how language works. Studies all aspects of the biology and behaviour of the human species (and our closest relatives), past and present. No anthropologist is an expert in all 4 branches of anthropology. Many do research that crosses over the subfields (interdisciplinary)
