SOSA 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Darwinism, Dendrochronology, Egyptology

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Sociol & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1002
• Professor: Campbell B

Document Summary

Refer to professor as mr. brain campbell (lowercase b) Office hours: tuesday 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm and thursday 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. Social anthropology is the study of culture of both western and non-western society, researchers often live among the people they study, anthropologists attempt to understand the structure that shape and constrain people"s lives. Anthropology is the study of humankind; it is the comparative study of human societies and culture across space and time. Culture (social) anthropology is the study of human cultures and societies, and it is usually pointed towards present day cultures. Discipline is comparative: use of cross-culture comparison (ethnology, detailed description of a group of people (ethnography, the gebusi is ethnography. Biological (physical) anthropology is the study of human physical variation, adaptations, and change. Archaeology is the examination of culture context of human material remains. History may not be treated the same way as in other courses.