ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dual Inheritance Theory, Urban Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
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The study of the human experience from multiple perspectives (lewis et al. , 2013) Encompasses both culture and biology of the human experience. Anthropos human and logos study of . Examining the effect of culture on biology. It"s a broad topic that encompasses all different topics related to behavior including social relationships like kinship/marriage patterns, religion, ritual, technology, subsistence and economic and political systems. Its also concerned with biological and evolutionary dimensions like genetics, anatomy, skeletal structure, adaption to diseases, growth and nutrition. Human behavior that is learned and shared by members of a society. One of the central paradigms of anthropology. The way we examine human behavior within society and species. There is a difference bw transmission of info from 1 generation to the next than biological inheritance. Culture is an adaptive mechanism to a specific environment. Scientific method, generating question abut nature and behavior and forming a hypothesis.
