AN101 Lecture Notes - Sociocultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology
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When you study another culture, you become more aware of your own culture. Anthropology studies what it means to be human. Archeology: study the human past through the analysis of material remains. Biological anthropology: the study of the biological evolution of humanity, the different stages of human evolution, how we became from apes to human, subfields of biological anthropology. Primatology - the study of primates who are the closest living relatives of human beings. Paleoanthropology - the study of fossilized bones of our early ancestors. Linguistic anthropology: the study of the relationship between language and culture, use language to organize one socially to transmit ideas and communicate, language gives many hints to its culture. Sociocultural anthropology: focuses on learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society. An extended period of close involvement with the people in whose way of life anthropologists are interested and during which they collect most of their idea.
