ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Jane Goodall, Forensic Anthropology, American Anthropologist
1 Dec 2017
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Human culture: learned behaviors and beliefs that shape our human experiences. Examples: religion, spirituality, identities (gender, race, ethnicity, nationalism), food. Mass media, educational system, socialization (friends, family), enculturation, social. We tend to think about many of our behaviours and identities as natural/biological but. Eg. nationalism - use terms like it"s in my blood to be an american, but americans are. Examples: missionaries, residential schools in canada, holocaust, racism. Understanding another society in its own terms. Integrative approach; making use of all available information and sub-fields to obtain a more complete picture of a society. Eg. jamestown (pg. 17), excavated by william kelso. Physical anthropology - studies all aspects of the biology and behaviour of the human. Example: jane goodall is a physical anthropologist. Studied chimp behaviour in gombe park, tanzania. Archaeology - the study of past societies and their cultures using material remains (e. g. , tools, ceramics, sites)
