ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Fundamental Interaction, Jane Goodall, Primatology

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AA3
• Professor: Tracy Prowse

Document Summary

The systematic study of humankind, past and present. Studies all aspects of the biology and behaviour of the human species (and our closest relatives), past and present. The study of past societies and their cultures using material remains (tools, ceramics, sites) The study of contemporary cultures and societies. Culture is defined as transmitted, learned behaviour. Studying a different culture in that society. Ethnography: a description of an aspect of culture . Studies the construction and use of language by human societies. Sociolinguistics: the relationship between language and social behaviour in different cultures. No anthropologist is an expert in all four branches of anthropology. Many do research that crosses over the subfields (interdisciplinary) Anthropology investigates the diversity of human in all contexts. View that humans are both cultural and biological beings. Study of the structure and function of the human skeleton.