ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pelvis, Smallpox, Inductive Reasoning
5 Dec 2017
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Anthropology is the systematic study of humans, in all time periods, all geographic locations, and all social contexts. As anthropologists we are interested in understanding what it is that makes us human, what it means to be human in all of these different contexts, and why humans are the many varied ways we are. Often, these subfields of anthropology overlap and intersect, and it"s not unusual for modern anthropological studies to combine elements of two or more subfields. This allows us to look at changes over time (historical), differences and similarities (comparative), and why we see specific behaviours, systems, or biological peculiarities in any particular group (contextual). But, rather than just focusing on one aspect of humanity, we want to see how all of these aspects work together to form the human experience (holistic). Anthropology investigates the cultural and biological diversity of humans.
