ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Explicit Knowledge, Enculturation, Incest Taboo
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Biological: focusses on human biological diversity in time and space. Archeological: studies material remains to interpret and describe the cultural patterns. Socio-cultural: study of human society and culture, the subfield that describes, analyzes, interprets and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. It is particularly concerns with exploring cultural adaptations. Linguistic: this field of anthropology mainly looks at the study of different languages and its use. City building: some people doing a particular work and other people doing another work to mutually benefit each other. All humans have certain biological processes necessary for them such as eating, sleeping, sexual relations but what differs is how these biological processes are carried out and that is determined by the culture you belong to. Anthropology is about making the strange familiar and the familiar strange . It developed historically as study of other cultures. It also served to help europeans question and think more critically about their own culture.
