ANTH 1031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Clifford Geertz, Linguistic Anthropology, Edward Burnett Tylor
11 Jan 2017
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2. linguistic anthropology: social/cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological/physical anthropology. Forensic anthropology (identifying skeletal remains, facial reconstruction, nutrition, diet, history of disease, colonization: linguistic anthropology (language acquisition, language and culture, social/cultural anthropology. Economic anthropology (labour, production, consumption, meaning of exchange, market behaviour) Political anthropology (distribution of power, decision making, con ict, law and order) Ecological anthropology (traditional and local knowledge, landscapes) Medical anthropology (cross-cultural comparisons of illness, ethnophramacology) Miscellaneous (anthropology of aging, gender, lm, religion, ritual, art, music, tourism) Broad anthropological themes/questions: what is natural/what is cultural, understanding human diversity, role of comparison, humans and nature, notions of the primitive, political economy, colonialism, and development. Culture: first de ned in 1871 by early anthropologist edward tylor. !2: culture is learned (enculturation), shared, and patterned, culture is shared behaviour and ideas, transmitted from generation to generation. Small-societies (such as a neighbourhood or a particular social class, not the entire city) Selected groups of individuals within large-scale societies, and normally involves.
