ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Second Voyage Of Hms Beagle, Adaptive Radiation, Thomas Robert Malthus
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Anthropology (anthropos = human, logos = study), holistic approach. Cultural anthropology (social anthropology) this is the study of different cultures around the world, study of human culture, Culture is not the things you have to do like eating and breathing, it"s the way we do those things, i. e. what we put on our food items & the particular food items we choose to eat. Ethnography snapshot of a culture at a particular time. Interested in languages that don"t even have a written form, interested in how culture is expressed through language, relationship between language and culture. Archaeology study of material culture, material culture is basically the stuff people make or use, specially interested in material made and modified by humans, Historic archaeology occurred for the first time in western asia (3000 b. c. ), provides us with access to the lives of whole segments of society that would otherwise be missing. Bioarchaeology application of archeology to biological materials (ex.
