ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interior Salish Languages, Kenmu, Know Thyself
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Anthropology seeks to understand human beings holistically: biological/ physical anthropology. Understanding physicality of human beings and their ancestors: archaeology. Understanding human beings through time by studying material culture and physical remains: linguistic anthropology. Understanding human beings(cid:495) capacity for language: cultural anthropology. Understanding human beings as social creatures who learn ideas, behvaiours and ways of being from one another. Surfaces the problems of seeing the world from your own cultural perspective. Whether written or oral, history is told through the cultural lens of the storyteller. How we think about what we see impacts our studies (cid:498)know thyself(cid:499); the anthropologist is the research instrument. Historical systematic scholarly attempts at understanding (cid:498)the other(cid:499) Herodotus - study of greco - roman peoples. Semalitsa recounts fraser(cid:495)s expedition from an interior salish perspective. Eb tylors (cid:498)classic(cid:499) definition (cid:498)complex whole which includes beliefs, knowledge, art, morals, law (cid:499) - kemmu + smillie.
