AN101 Chapter Notes -Franz Boas, Marius Barbeau, Cree Language
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Cultural anthropology: chapter 1: the nature of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of human kind in all times and places deals with human nature have ought to expose the fallacies of racial and cultural superiority and their devotion to study all ppl. Globalization is forcing us to deal with issues and challenges understand other cultures. Anthropology has much to say about human destiny. Anthropologists seek to produce reliable knowledge about people + their behavior, about what makes them different and what they all share in common. Biological anthropologists: trace evolutionary development of humans as biological organisms. Also study same as above but not with only humans (apes, monkeys) Archaeologists: seek to explain human behavior by looking at past through objects (material culture) Linguistic anthropologists: study the way language is used as resource to practice/develop/transmit culture. Sociocultural anthropologists: are concerned with contemporary human cultures as they have been observed,
