ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scrimshaw, Ethnographic Film, Digital Anthropology
5 Jun 2015
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Anthropology aims to describe in the broadest sense what it means to be human. Anthropological perspective: holistic, comparative, evolutionary, field-based. The study of human nature, human society and the human past. Anthropology tries to integrate all that is known about human beings and their activities at the highest and most inclusive level. Holism: integrates all that is known about human nature, human society and the human past. Ethnography: anthropological study of one group of people in depth. Culture: sets of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society. Human beings use culture to adapt and to transform the world in which they live. Anthropology subfields: cultural/social anthropology, archaeology, biological/physical anthropology, linguistics, applied anthropology (*) The specialty of anthropology that looks at human beings as biological organisms and tries to discover what characteristics make them different from other organisms and what characteristics they share. Began as an attempt to classify all the world"s populations into different races.
