ANTH 195 Lecture 1: Intro to Anthro (1-15-15)
Document Summary
Anthropology-aims to describe what it means to be human. Holisic perspecive-assumpion that any aspect of a culture is integrated with other aspects, so that no dimension of culture can be understood in isolaion. Comparaive perspecive-to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Relaivisic perspecive-muliple ways of understanding and living in the world that are at once plausible and arbitrary. Archaeology-devoted to the study of how people in the past lived by examining material remains. Biological anthropology-examine quesions about human variaion, adaptaion and change, looking at humans and nonhumans, past and present. Linguisic anthropology-studies language as a form of symbolic communicaion and as a carrier of important informaion. Cultural anthropology-studying how cultures vary from another and/or how they are similar. Culture-set of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society.
