ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Historical Archaeology, Cree Language, Biological Anthropology
4 Jul 2017
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What forces in the past have shaped us: comparative: What are the reasons for this difference: contextual. What circumstances, environments, and beliefs (context) shape human behaviour: holistic. Four subfields of anthropology: biological anthropology, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, linguistics. Sociocultural anthropology: study of contemporary cultures and societies, culture is de ned as transmitted, learned behaviour, methodology: ethnology & participant observation. !1: ethnography: a description of an aspect of culture within a society. Archaeology: study of past societies and their cultures using material culture (ex tools, ceramics, sites, prehistoric archaeology. Usually no written documents or oral histories. Evidence comes from artifacts recovered from sites": historical archaeology. Physical anthropology: studies all aspects of the biology and behaviour of the human species (and closest relatives), past and present. Remember: anthropologists do research that crosses the sub elds, anthropology investigates the diversity of humans in all contexts, view that humans are both cultural and biological beings.
