ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Jane Goodall
12 Mar 2016
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The systemaic study of humankind in all imes and places. Anthropology is not just about the study of far away peoples and places. Used to be categorised as the study of indigenous peoples or far away socieies. Crack dealers in east harlem to understand how poverty and racism shape their choice to sell crack and join gangs. Collects ancient dna from individuals who died from the black death. Wrote twice dead: organ transplants and reinvenion of death . Japan: organ transplants are legal, mind and body split, our personhood resides within the brain o o. Sports celebriies swimming igure skaing naionalism and idenity. Anthropology, geography, sociology, psychology all study people. So what makes anthropology unique or diferent from these disciplines: methods of study o o o. Long term ieldwork archaeologists and physical anthropologists excavaion cultural or linguisics living/interacing with people for a year or more: uses large amounts of primary research.
