ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Taxonomy, Sociocultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology
31 Aug 2016
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Anthropology: the study of humankind in all time and places including: technology, art, genetics, politics, religion, material culture, economics, settlement, subsistence, warfare, music, symbolism, reproduction, migration, growth and development, biomechanics, social organization. Anthropology draws on many different disciplines: medicine, history, art, economics, biology, political. Deepwater horizon oil spill: a way of looking at the world without boundaries expanding your line of inquiry to find an answer, open inquiry until we find what"s relevant and not relevant. Work time: comparing one thing to another, used to expose variation or diversity, gives you a basis of generalizing. 6-million-year past includes at least three genera and many species of humans (hominins) Today we are all one (sub)species- homo sapiens sapiens but biologically variable. We can understand this variation as adaptations to environment, as physiological plasticity, and as result of interplay between culture and biology : social. Societies ranging from small bands of mobile foragers to populous nations states and beyond.
