ANT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geoglyph, Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act, Cultural Anthropology
19 Jan 2017
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Goal: to understand/ explain human diversity over time and space. Science and humanities: scientific method, ethnographic stories and interpretation. Material culture is interpreted to make inferences about the cultures of the past: resource exploitation, social organization, technology, adaptations, environmental impact. Objects that have been made or modified by humans, typically of cultural or historical interest: includes: Non-portable evidence of human activities: includes: Plant and animal remains that were used by humans, but not modified. Remains of ancient life (bones, traces, impressions) that can be dated through radiometric methods. Reconstruction of the past to trace and explain cultural changes. Variation in growth, development, aging, and health. Holistic description of a society"s customary behaviors and ideas. Depth over breadth (not superficial, more into how a society functions) Cross-cultural comparisons, i. e. (human relations area files hraf) How do anthropologists get around their own cultural assumptions.
