ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Linguistic Anthropology, Blubber, Plastic Surgery
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Cultural, biological and physical, linguistic, and archeology (and paleo) anthropology. Comparative science examines ancient and modern, simple and complex societies. Is this a cultural forum or is this found everywhere? : marriage: plays cross culturally, who marries who and why is specific but the whole topic it self is universal. Able to inhabit widely variant ecological niches. Anthropology: study of the human species and its immediate ancestors: comparative and holistic science, holism: study of whole of human condition: past present, and future; biology, society, language, etc. Society: organized life in groups: shared with others animals. Cultures: traditions and customs, transmitted through learning, which guide the beliefs and behaviors or people exposed to them: in order for it to be transmitted it has to be learned. Shows us how customs are shared and how they may be changed over time. Anthropology explores human biological and cultural diversity in time and space.
