ANTH 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Remote Sensing, Sickle-Cell Disease, Cultural Anthropology
15 Feb 2018
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Anth 201-501 spring 2018 exam 1 study guide. Disclaimer: an item"s absence from the list below does not preclude it being included on the exam. Anthropology the study of humankind, ancient and modern people, totality of human experience. Anthropologists are interested in human universality and human diversity. Anthropological inquiry can focus anywhere at any time. What kinds of studies are undertaken within each subfield (e. g. biological or physical anthropology includes primatology) Archaeological anthropology reconstructs, describes, and interprets past human behavior and cultural patterns through material remains. Artifacts (potsherds, jewelry, tools), garbage, burials, structural remains. The record provides the unique opportunity to look at changes in social complexity over thousands and tens of thousands of years. Linguistics : the study of language in its social and cultural context across space and time. Historical linguists reconstruct ancient languages and study linguistic variation through.
