ANTH 1210 Lecture 3: ANTH 1210 Lecture 3 Anthropological research

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1210
• Professor: Sara J.Halwas

Document Summary

Specialization: theoretical versus applied anthropology, theoretical or academic, focus on building knowledge base, most museums and universities applied, applies knowledge to real world problems. Anthropological research: holistic approach, multifaceted study of the vast variation between people and many aspects of human experience, biocultural model, human diversity due to interaction between biological culture and environment, culture: successful adaptive strategy. Is conducted as a science: explain what you observe (= data, data : observation or information you are collecting, things that you a measured, counted or categorized. Explain observations: through associations or relationships between to variables, explain variable by fitting it to a known principles or relationship, e. g pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iple of (cid:862)if it looks like a du(cid:272)k(cid:863, multiple repeats of the relationship = law or theory. Theory testing2: theory -> hypothesis -> predictions on results, compare results to predictions: if expected results observed, this lends support to the hypothesis. If the probability is large, then the relationship is likely due to change.