SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Indigestion, Ornithomancy, Oneiromancy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

Human beings pose questions about nearly everything in the world, including themselves. The most fundamental of these questions are answered by people"s religious beliefs and practices. Approach that compares human societies throughout the world, contemporary and historical, industrial and tribal. It differs from other disciplines as anthro is an integrated study of humanity. Study human societies as systematic sums of their parts, as integrated wholes. Known as holism approach. ex) many disciplines study marriage. Anthropologists believe that a true understanding of marriage requires an understanding of all aspects of society. Marriage is influenced by politics and law, economics, ethics, and theology; marriage influences history, literature, art and music. Physical anthropology: study of human biology and evolution. Interested in genetics, evolutionary theory, the biology and behaviour of the primates. Archaeology: study of people who are known only from their physical and cultural remains, gives us insight into the lives of now extinct societies. Linguistic anthropology: devoted to the study of language.