ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Jane Goodall, Cultural Relativism, Language Acquisition
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Sex, gender and the body: cross-cultural approaches to the body, gender, sexuality and kinship. Lecture 2 evolutionary myths sept 14. Only dates to the late 1800s in europe and north america. The study of humanity across time and space: across time human behaviour and ways of life. Humanity interested in human-like ancestors from apes and monkeys to. This course is in the social/cultural anthropology field. There are four sub-category fields: archeology, physical/biological anthropology, linguistic and socio/cultural anthropology. Study past human societies, primarily through analyzing material culture (artefacts, architecture): material culture things that are made or modified by humans. Food: examine things that get left behind your trash from past societies, if they are examining a society where documents are available, they will use those forms to get information alongside artefacts. Study human and animal bodies as physical entities. They are interested in things such as: human evolution hominids. Hominids include humans and their bipedal ancestors.