ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Osteoporosis, South Asia, Adam Kadmon

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Andrew Wade

Document Summary

Fields sometimes cross over - eg. bioarchaeology -> archaeology and physical anthropology. Linguistic anthropology: the construction and the use of language: eg. Dr. john colarusso, looks at the signs of languages and international relations. Looks at structural linguistics - how lnaguage works, what is the relationship between the way we speak and the way we think. It all exists and we made them so we can shape them. Regard the two at the same time: holistic approach. Evolutionary perspective: to look at things in the deep past: osteology - study of the skeleton. Central to physical anthropology, structure and function of the skeleton, important for understanding changes in fossil material and adaptation in living populations. How skeletons adapt: palaeoanthropology: study of the fossils and it can impact osteology, primatology: came from non human primates, there are a variety of other primates.