ANTHRO 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biological Anthropology, Ethnocentrism, Social Anthropology
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Human evolution: discover fossil remains and items like this, primatologists are a type of biological anthropologist, archeology. Study of human past through study of material remains. Look through piles of trash to find out how people live: linguistic anthropology. Many divisions within this field: cultural or social anthropology. Ethnology- text created by cultural anthropologists (i. e. coming of. Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by mans a s a member of society. (primitive culture, 1871) Unilineal cultural evolution: some nations are more developed and considered more civilized than others. A conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium. (guest: nobody is useless in a society, even homeless people and prisoners, bronislaw malinowski (1884-1942) Claude levi-strauss (1908-2009: universal mind, structuralism, deep structure, everyone has the same intellectual capability.
