ANTH100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Anthropology, Structural Anthropology, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Maria Liston

Document Summary

Compare and contrast the four major subfields of anthropology. Describe how the field of anthropology is holistic, interdisciplinary, and global. Explain how the scientific method is used in anthropological explanations. Discuss how the field of anthropology bridges both the sciences and the humanities. First contact: initial encounters between peoples of different societies. Today first contacts happen through emails, social media, etc. Anthropologists used a variety of field methods, techniques, and theoretical approaches in their investigations, which have two goals: To understand the uniqueness and diversity of human behaviour and human societies around the world. Discover the fundamental similarities that connect human beings throughout the world in both the past and present. The four subfields bridge sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. And finally we have applied anthropology: uses anthropological data from the other subfields to deal with modern problems and concerns. Biological anthropology: (physical anthropology) the branch of anthropology that is concerned with humans as a biological species.