ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biological Anthropology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Maria Liston

Document Summary

Exams cover a mix of class and text. Biological anthropology: study of human skeletons, primates, evolution. Archaeology: study of past human societies, does the same as cultural anthropologists except on societies that no longer exist anymore. *can relate to real world problems as there are specific areas that are tourist destinations based on previous societies that lived there - this is a real world problem. Archaeologists are having problems with storage and availability. Cultural anthropology: *largest field; study human society, human interactions, trying to understand human beings, Applied anthropology: taking all the anthropological studies from the various subfields and looking at them in the real world.