ANT-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociocultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology
Document Summary
Anthropology, representation and positionality: what is anthropology, research methods in anthropology, positionality, blinded by sight . The study of human past and present : immersion, language, culture, human beings, behavior, comparative, development, origin, it does not only study non-industrial people, it is more than that. What does anthropology do: religion, social structure, folklore, linguistics, laws + legal practice, technology, medicine, kinship, livelihoods. Anthropology started in north america and spread to europe. It is a holistic, descriptive, comparative, cross-cultural perspective: totality of social life, biology and cultural diversity, similarity & differences, how they are learned. Hominids: members of zoological family, fossils & living humans. The four-field model of anthropology: sociocultural anthropology: studies culture. It is the study of human cultural difference. How people interact with one another and their institutions. Examines social patterns and practices across cultures with a special interest in how people live in particular places and how they organize, govern and create meaning.
