Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Edward Tyson

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1025F/G
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

The study of humankind in all times and places. Seek to produce reliable knowledge and behavior of people, also comparing their similarities and differences. Biological: trace evolution of biological organisms and variations of species. (specifically primates) Linguistic: how language is used to developing and transmitting culture. Sociocultural: contemporary cultures as they have been observed, experienced and discussed with people. Biological and archaeologists excavation of sites where evidence of humans found. Linguistic use of language to relate to one another, living with people briefly. Sociocultural immerse in contemporary culture by living and participating in their daily activities (cid:498) the social world in which we live does not exise in the absolute sense, but rather is simply one model of reality(cid:499) The farthest we can go back with solid information written down. Wrote a text on the persian war. 1st to try and explain differences between cultures. Western people coming into contact with people who use different.