ANTH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Theory, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Franz Boas
29 Aug 2016
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Other disciplines: not the only academic field that studies humans. Holistic perspective: all facets of shared human behavior, trying to understand. Anthropology and science: scientific method, hypothesis testing. Anthropology and humanism: cultural process, logic of rationality. Anthropology concepts: culture, about shared human behavior, a society"s socially transmitted ideas, values, and perceptions b. i. Make sense of experience: present and past c. i. Historic and prehistoric: evolution, about human biological change, scientific theory that species arise through a long, gradual process of genetic transformation, present and past c. i. Changing species: environment, about ecological interconnectedness b. Idea that we are shaped by our environments and in turn shape the world in which we live: present and past c. i. Historical reasons in the u. s: north american native peoples, culture and biology, history of racial categories, franz boas. Topical reasons: human variation in time and space, culture and evolution. American anthropological association (aaa) recognizes two dimensions: academic anthropology. Grant and university research: applied anthropology.
