ANTHR207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Persuasive Writing, Applied Anthropology, Biological Anthropology
25 Dec 2015
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2 anthropological perspective on the human condition. Applied anthropology is practical application in real world settings. Anthropology explores human societies, cultures, and physical diversity across time and space. Time: brings in evolutional historical aspect, contemporary societies (written docs and language), how humans got to this point. Space: culture happens in different places at different times, came in different stages and different places. Anthropology is not always about seeking answers, it"s about asking good questions. Challenge history, challenge assumptions, challenge beliefs and traditions to get new perspectives of new options. Mind body duality, humans evolved, mind is separate from the body, mind has power over body. All aspects play a role in shaping human beings. Type of research (not laboratory) about being out studying in the social. Participate observation (live with that group of people, incorporate, at the same time research and make observations) Began as an attempt to define distinct human races .
