ANTH 1001 Lecture : Anthro Notes Week 1 1
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Four main differences: usually study other cultures , reduce ethnocentrism (the belief that your ethnicity is the center of the world your way is the only way and the best way, field work, comparative discipline (ex. Comparing the shape of teeth from one fossil to another: holistic (totality of human experience) Cultural anthropology: study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought, and feelings, describes, analyzes, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences, examples ethnography, medical anthropology, urban anthropology. Linguistic anthropology: the study of language, allows people to preserve and transmit details of their culture from generation to generation, examples historical linguistics, descriptive linguistics, socio-linguistics. Creationism: public school curricula, efforts have led to the emergence of scientific creationism or intelligent design. Ussher determined that the earth was 4,000 years old. Aristotle [4th century bc] wrote the concept of the great chain of being.
