ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Biological Anthropology, Hominidae, Ethnology
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Week 1 encountering otherness the concept of culture. Anthropology the study of human beings, human nature, human society, human past and human present. Anthropologists - try to study human experiences in different times and different places and the try to discover what all human beings have in common and how differences have developed from that common base. Psychologists, political scientists and other people also study human beings, but. Anthropology draws different premises together such as human biology, economics, politics and nature. Anthro draws together a range of different types of data and looks at them together. Anthropologists conduct research and do work in different types of societies such as peasant communities, urban setting and cities, multicultural corporations, and non-western societies. Holism holism is a perspective on the human condition that assumes that the mind and body, individuals and society, and the individuals and the environment interpenetrate and define one another.
