ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Andy Roddick, Adam Kadmon, Historical Linguistics
21 Oct 2015
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Understand how anthropologists investigate issues relating to sex, food and death. Think critically about issues and develop your reflective thinking skills. Final exam (30%) - everything after midterm. Can be historical, comparative, contextual or holistic. Culture is defined as transmitted, learned behaviour. Ethnography - a description of an aspect of culture within a society. Immerge themselves into the culture and gives written reports. Can also be local (eg. ethnics in foodbanks) Study of past societies and their cultures using material culture (eg. tools, ceramics, sites) Looks at pottery and ceramics, past social organizations. Usually no written documents or oral histories. Evidence comes from artifacts recovered from sites Rigorously controlled using standard procedures to reduce destruction. Sampling - usually do not excavate the entire site. Evidence/artifacts are recorded, labelled, photographed and mapped systematically. Excavation method depends on challenges/problems associated with sites. Studies the construction and use of language by human societies. Relationship between language and social behaviour in different cultures.
