SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Agnosticism, Liminality, Ethnocentrism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

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Chapter 1 the anthropological study of religion. Anthropology study of humanity, also shares subject matter to other disciplines- sociology, psychology, history, and political science. Holism anthropologists study human societies as systematic sums of their parts, as integrated wholes. For example, anthropologist believes that a true understanding of marriage requires an understanding of all aspects of the society. Physical anthropology is the study of human biology and evolution. Archaeology is the study of people who are known only from their physical and cultural remains. Linguistic anthropology is devoted to the study of language. Cultural anthropology is the study of contemporary human societies and makes up the largest area of anthropological study. Foraging bands small communities that subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plant foods. Horticulture the use of cultivated domesticated plants without the use of fertilizers, plows, irrigation, and other agricultural technologies. Pastoral nomads societies that subsist primarily by herding domesticated animals.