ATH 175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Adam Kadmon
29 Aug 2016
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What is anthropology: anthropology (from two greek words, anthropos for human and logos for study, the study of humankind, pan-human (humans everywhere, diachronic (in all times) Not just the present but all time periods: holistic (all aspects) This is our best protection against accepting the wrong ideas about humans, against prejudice, shortsightedness, and rationalizations: holistic approach. Many aspects of the human experience: fields of anthropology. The study of humanity as a biological phenomenon---living (human variation) and dead (paleoanthropology) The study of the social, symbolic, and material lives of existing or recently extant human societies. Descriptive: how one language relates to another, how they have varied over time. Sociolinguistics: deals with how language is used in context, how is language developed and practiced. Ethnography (derived from greek) entails the systematic description of a particular people/culture through fieldwork: description of peoples learned behaviors. This class deals primarily with theoretical perspective in cultural anthropology, the subfield of the discipline concerned------
