ANTH 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Franz Boas, Linguistic Anthropology, Garbology
Document Summary
The danger of a single story, anth 2300, fall 2018. Textbook sources: the dawn of interest by raybeck; cultural. Anthropology: global forces, local lives 3rd edition by jack david eller. Anthropology: the study of the diversity of human life; the study of the diversity of human bodies in the past and present: biology, prehistory and histories, changing* cultures, language, and institutions. Four fields: biological/physical anthropology: the study of the diversity of human bodies in the past and present, including physical adaptation, group or race characteristics, and human evolution, adaptation to diverse environments, biological and cultural processes work together. *applied anthropology (the fifth field: the application of anthropological methods and theories to the analysis and solution of practical problems. Anthropology has been forced to change because of: colonialism, postcolonial independence, nationalist and indigenous movements, modernization and globalization. Glocalization: combination of globalization and local, suggests the unique local and situated forms and effects of wide-spread and even global processes.
