ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anthropological Linguistics, Adam Kadmon, Development Anthropology
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Anthropos human beings and logia study of . Anthropology formally defined as study of human nature, human society, and the human past. Anthropologists study human origins, try to understand diverse modern ways of life, and excavate the past, understand why we speak the way we do. Holistic being that it tries to fit together everything known about human beings. Study different disciplines (economics, biology) and data on those topics and try to create a picture of human life. Goal of an anthropologist is to paint a holistic portrait of people"s way of life by bringing together info about different aspects social, religious, political, etc. Anthropologists discovered societies didn"t follow other societies patterns/ way of life. Anthro is evolutionary, study of bio evolution of humans over time, origins, genetic variety, inheritance. Also cultural evolution, patterns of orderly change in social behavior not carried in genes. Divided into biological, cultural, linguistic, and archaeology. Biological look at different aspects of human biology.
