ANTA01H3 Chapter : Human Antiquity Textbook Notes
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Chapter 1 myth: a story usually invoking the supernatural, to account for some aspect of the world. *tries to set up a social system with some supernatural power to maintain social order. Also reflects the environment, history + cultural system of the society. Affects how western people studied the past evolution: the systematic change over of organisms or social systems. Believe that all human life is interrelated and can only be understood in those interrelationships it is also the holistic (a study that views its subject as a whole made up of integrated parts) study of people. It is also divided into subfields, due it broad contents: examples: 1. cultural anthropology the branch of anthropology that focuses on cultural behavior. Tries to study the nature of culture and its variety among different societies. Studies both living and past cultures usually try to study with ancient texts. Basically is culture: the nongenetic means of adaptation, that people develop + pass down.