ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Culture Shock, Reductionism, Scientific Method

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 100
• Professor: R.Robin Dods

Document Summary

Types of anthropology: (i) biological anthropology, (ii) archaeology, (iii) linguistics, (iv) cultural anthropology, (v) applied anthropology (i) to (iv) are the original four, history of this development boas. Changes inform of body of descendant of immigrants (1911) How one can study time for various records. Topical: has everything on a list of topic, or categories, like social organization, religion, or economy. Historical: social heritage, or tradition, that is passed from generation to generation. Behavioral: shared, learned way behavior; a way of life. Functional: the way humans solve problems of adapting to the environment or living together. Mental: a complex of idea, or learned habits, that inhibit impulses and separates people from animals. Structural: composed of patterned and interrelated ideas, symbols or behaviors. Symbolic: based on arbitrarily assigned meaning that are shared by a society: society: a group of people who live in the same geographical region, speak the same language and are interdependent.