ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Diversity, Aphorism, Ethnology
8 Jun 2016
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Anthropology: study of humans and people, used to be referred to study of man. Humans and dinosaurs lived millions of years apart. 35% agreed that humans developed from earlier species. Transitions to becoming humans: 7-5 million years ago, lucy and australopithecines, homo habilis: handy with tools, homo erectus: the wanderer, 100,000 years ago humans start wandering out of africa 60,000 years ago. Development of civilization; urban areas, cities, agriculture, writing, pottery, technological changes. Studies the varieties of languages and history of languages. How language is used in daily life. Languages excellent example of how culture is shared, moves around. English not pure [even though john adams in 1780 thought it was ad should be kept that way] Language and metaphors: the sun rises, go down to san diego, up to san francisco. Description and analysis of cultures and social groups.
