ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biological Anthropology, Coevolution, Co-Determination
21 Feb 2016
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Chapter 1- the anthropological perspective on the human condition. Determinism: biological reduction of complex events to single forces. Dualism: view that sees reality as consisting of 2 different but equal parts. Idealism: gives primacy to the mind that produces ideas. Materialism: emphasizes the actions of the physical body in the material world. Holism: assumes that mind and body, person and society, humans and their environment interpenetrate and define one another. Culture: learned behaviors and ideas acquired by humans as members of society. Co-evolution: emphasizes the mutual evolution of biology, culture and environment. Anthropology is comparative in that it views humans across time and space. Anthropology is evolutionary in that it includes the view of co- evolution, the relationship between biological and symbolic processes. Names of specific theories materialism, idealism, co-evolution. The 4 specialties of anthropology: biological anthropology. Focus is on human beings as living organisms. Includes paleoanthropology, human biology and variation, and primatology: archaeology.
