ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology

• School: Colorado Mesa University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 202
• Professor: John Seebach

Document Summary

Culture is anthropology"s unifying concept that brings together things that other social sciences study as separate domains: economics, political, society, psychology etc. Culture: learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society together with the material artifacts and structures that human beings create and use . Biological anthropology: the study of the biological factors of human evolution across centuries. Linguistic anthropology: study how languages are actually spoken among other interesting aspects of this most human of communication modes. Applied archeology: ensures preservation: cultural resource management (crm, conservation archeology, public archeology. All species can produce offspring faster than the natural increase in food supply: population growth exponentially while food supply is linear. Biological variation occurs in all sexual reproductive animals. Limited resources: there are more animals born than those that can survive. Individuals possessing favorable traits have a competitive advantage over those that do not. Favorable traits are defined by the environment being inhabited: environment changes everything!!