ANTH100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Molecular Anthropology, Participant Observation, Paleoanthropology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Nicole Hayes

Document Summary

Office w/ hours: pas 2020 on mondays 1-3. Course description: understanding what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested in the diversity of cultures and societies across time and space. The 4 fields of anthro: biological anthropology, archaeology, anthropological linguistics, cultural anthropology. Testing: first midterm is 1st field (chapters 1-4) Exam is 3rd and 4th field (chapters 8-16) The integrated study of human nature, human society and the human past. Describing what it means to be human (in all places in all times) Holistic: the study of the complex whole of society, biology, etc. Comparative: we want to make generalizations about human nature by comparing different species or societies. Evolutionary: want to have generalizations that are valid over space and time. Culture is used to adapt and transform the world. Has had the greatest impact on humans and on the planet.