ANTH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Ethnography
Document Summary
The scientific study of the origin, development, and varieties of human beings and their societies, particularly so-called primitive societies. To some people this definition is all that anthropology is about, including myself, until my first week in. After watching the video essence of anthropology and seeing the four different field approaches; Cultural, linguistic, archeology, and physical anthropology within a given society my interest for cultural anthropology grew. Cultural anthropology studies modern day and historical human societies all over the world. Cultural anthropologists investigate within a certain society of interest and collect their data during an extended period of close involvement in every day life, this is known as fieldwork. In this video the cast members made a ethnography; which is an anthropologists written or filmed description of a particular culture, the ethnography studied the culture of the ju/"hoansi within the 1950"s.
