AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Unilineal Evolution, Sociocultural Anthropology, White Privilege
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Anthropology textbook definitions chapter 1: culture and meaning. Sociocultural anthropology: a comparative approach to the study of societies and cultures that focuses on differences and similarities in the ways that societies are structured and cultural meanings are created. Biological anthropology: a sub-discipline of anthropology that focuses upon the study of the evolution, function and health of the human and our closest primate ancestors across time and space. Archaeology: the branch of anthropology that studies human history and its artifacts. Archaeologists typically look at the material remains of human groups in order to learn how people lived. Linguistic anthropology: a study of the relationship between language and culture. Linguistic anthropologists explore how people use language, both in a physical sense with regard to how communication is structure, and in a historical sense with regard to how different languages have developed and spread throughout history.
