ANTH 341 Lecture : Lecture 1

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 341
• Professor: Hartmut Krentz

Document Summary

Images of bronislaw malinowski among trobriand tribe. Practices of contemporary peoples and populations; similarities/differences: b. archaeology. Also looks at human behavior, but by looking at human remains of prehistoric and recent populations. Try to uncover past populations and reconstruct both the materials and behaviors that are associated with them; hope to recreate the behavior of individuals in the past. Look at similarities/differences over time: c. physical/biological. Biological perspective, looking at underlying reasons for differences we see in current and past populations. Reconstruct human behaviors over time through fossil remains and materials left behind. When you spend time with people, they open up to you. Clinically applied medical anthropology perspectives: m. a. that is applied in a clinical situation. M. a. is a biolcultural discipline concerned with both the biological and sociocultural aspects of human behavior, and particularly with the ways in which the two interacted throughout human history to influence health and disease. (foster and anderson)