ANTH 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adam Kadmon, World History, Primatology

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1210
• Professor: David B.Landry

Document Summary

World history of archaeology: anthropology - anthropos: human -logo: study (cid:862)the study of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s(cid:863, to integrate all that is known about human and their activities at the highest, anthropology: an overview holism: central to the anthropological perspectives. Examines differences among people. (importance of a tribute) Also tries to identify those phenomenon that all people have in common - Seems to make generalizations about 1. human culture 2. *ca(cid:374)"t be do(cid:374)e usi(cid:374)g observatio(cid:374)s a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g the hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) Sociocultural- comparative and descriptive: ethnography- involves field with descriptive, ethology. Involves cross cultural comparisons (linguistic studies human speech and language: descriptive nature of language, history and development of language, archeology, concerned with the analysis description and interpretation of the nearly of people who lived in traditional background. Physical-subfield of paleoanthropology: goal is to reconstruct human biological evolution through the study of ancient fossil organisms. Physical- subfield of primatology: all anthropological of unified by two concepts (culture and evolution)