ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Language Change, Primatology, Linguistic Description
16 Oct 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Seek to produce reliable knowledge about people and their behavior. What is different, and what do they have in common. Trace evolutionary development of humans as biological organisms and investigate biological variations within the species. Anthropology: the study of humankind in all times and places. Colonialism: when on enation dominates another through occupations. Cultural imperialism: promoting ones nations values, beliefs, and behavior as superior to those of all others. Biological anthropology: the study of humans as biological organisms. Paleoanthropology: the study of fossil remains with the goal of reconstructing human biological evolution. Primatology: the study of nonhuman primates, their biology, and social behavior. Forensic anthropology: a field of applied biological anthropology and archaeology that specializes in the identification of human skeletal remains for legal purposes. Archaeology: the study of material remains to reconstruct the lives of people who lived in the past. Prehistoric/pre-contact archaeology: the study of ancient cultures that did not possess writing systems to record their history.
