ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Phenotypic Plasticity, Westminster Abbey, Prehensile Tail

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Keriann Mc Googan

Document Summary

Cultural anthropology - culture in non human primates, early hominins, global patterns and belief. Culture standards are socially learned; we learn culture rather than acquire it. Modern anthropologists study sub groups within a larger population even if they are a member of that population. Linguistic anthropology study of human speech and language . Historical linguists (usually study languages without a written form), structural linguists (how contemporary languages differ from basic structure and construction) , socio linguists (how language differs in different social situations) Archaeology - study of early cultures and lifeways through the recovery and analysis of material remains. gain information about human behaviour, social organization, subsistence techniques. Pre historic archaeology human behaviour from the very distant past, older than 5000 years. Historic written records are available and used with findings. Physical/biological anthropology -- study of human biology within the framework of evolution. Emphasis on the interaction between biology and culture.