ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Marine Protected Area, Clifford Geertz, Homo Sapiens
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4 sub-fields in anthropology: biological, archeology, cultural linguistic. Cultural anthropology is the study of human society and culture, the subfield that describes, analyses, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. It is particularly concerned with exploring cultural adaptation. Wheras biological anthropologists explore how humans evolve and adapt biologically, cultural anthropologists focus on cultural adaptation. All humans share certain bio features and engage in similar biological processes (eating, sleep, have sex) but the way they do these things differ. All humans share similar bodily functions, physical needs but the way we go about doing these things around the world diversifies. Sullens argues that its culture that determines how we go about using our bodies and how we live our lives. Culture preceded modern human physical form by million yrs or more. The body of the modern human species, homo sapiens, was formed under the ageis of culture.
