ANTH101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Western World, Symbolic Anthropology, Steam Engine
20 Nov 2018
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Anthropology is the study of humankind everywhere, throughout time. Psychology, sociology, political science, history, philosophy, human biology, literature. How and why humans have changed since then. How and why modern human populations vary in physical futures. It seeks to answer two distinct sets of questions. Questions about the emergence of humans and their evolution. Questions about how and why contemporary human populations vary biologically. Seeks to reconstruct the daily life and customs of peoples in the past and to trace cultural changes. Deals with prehistoric (before written history) and historical (after recorded history) artifacts. They try to understand and connect the past to the present. Study of human languages, written and unwritten. Sociolinguistics study how language is used in social contexts. Study of language and involves language form, meaning, language meaning, and language in the context. The study of customary patterns of human behavior. 90 percent of human history from origins. Continuous movement from one place to another.
