ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Anthropology, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Epidemiological Transition
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First contact term used by anthropologists when referring to the first time that individuals from different societies encounter each other. Main goals of anthropologists: to understand the uniqueness and diversity of worldwide human behaviour and societies, to uncover the fundamental similarities that link humans from across the world, from the past and present together. Examination of the deep past: biocultural perspective. Examination of the interaction between biology and culture: fossils. Earliest fossils found in east and south africa. Petrifaction: process that material becomes fossilized by replacing minerals from soil. Osteology study of the human skeleton based on function and structure: central to physical anthropology in understanding human evolution. How language works, that being the structure of it. Compares and contrast composition and grammar of language, and thought patterns of societies: sociolinguistics. Comparing and contrasting how languages from different societies have historical links.