ANTH 1001 Lecture : Anthropology Notes
Document Summary
Goal: to find out what it is to be a human being: buzz words of anthropology, biocultural approach: a perspective for studying human that considers both the biological (philological) aspect of humans and the cultural (behavioral) aspect; Results in being judgmental: cultural relativism: the idea that all cultures are viewed within their own historical/environmental context, fieldwork: a period of time where anthropologists are collecting data. Going into another culture, gathering information from informants. American anthropology: franz boaz, born: 1958, died: 19, father of american anthropology , set the standard for the four-field (biocultural) perspective, trained the 1st generation of anthropologists(professor at. Colombia: ales hrdlicka, 1869-1943, the great organizer , studied human variation, compiled collections of osteological materials used for research, american journal of physical anthropology, started it in 1918, american association of physical anthropologists, began this as well. Great chain of being: natural world. Fixity of species: once life forms were created, they didn"t change: political systems.
