ANT 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pseudoscience
6 Sep 2016
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Anthropology 2100: day one notes part one: anthropology, in general. What is anthropology: anthropology is the study of human nature, human societies, and the human past. Considered one of the most social of one of the sciences, and one of the most scientific of the social sciences. Focuses heavily on the collection of data, quantitative or qualitative. Quantitative is the numbers/amounts, qualitative is the what: anthropology is a broad, holistic field, anthropology is a social science, anthropology is concerned with the comparison of human societies, cultures, pasts, and presents. The american school of anthropology: anthropology as a discipline has a history of racism, the americanist school of anthropology emerged in the mid- nineteenth century during the conflicts leading to the american civil. War: anthropology (primarily biological) was used to create the classification system known as race, anthropologists now agree that biological race is a construct created by humans, and that there is only one human race.
