ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Avatar (2009 Film), Forensic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
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Anta02 lecture 1 introduction to anthropology. There are 4 to 5 subfields in anthropology: Applied anthropology (some consider this the fifth subfield) How language shapes and reflects people"s values, beliefs, and worldviews. In the power point article: two woman are the last, remaining individuals to speak a language, but refuse to talk to each other (example of linguistic anthropology) The two woman: manuel segovia and isidro velazquez. Parts of sociological anthropology and parts of biological anthropology. Since the term sociocultural is too long, when the professor says anthropology she is referring to sociocultural anthropology (unless she says otherwise) Individuals think that sociocultural anthropologists go and live in mud huts . Author of the cartoon in the power point (lecture 1) In the cartoon, the villagers see the anthropologists coming and they hide their stuff. False labelling: anthropologists do not come to countries, villages, etc. to destroy the culture, they come to understand it.
