ANTA01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ardi, Habitat Destruction, Osteology
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Tracing the changing interaction between biology and culture of humans. Culture can be described as the strategy where people adapt to the natural and social environments in which they live, ex: stone tools computers. Encultration: where individuals learn values and norms from family and society. The study of all aspects of human behaviour, rooted in the enlightenment. Ethnographies: detailed study of human societies (study of non-western) Comes with curiosity of how modern species came to be. Knowledge of soft tissue anatomy and structure is important. Forensic anthropology: helps to identify skeletal remains or a where a body is found. The study of human past through examtination and study of its material remains. Human activities and by-products enter the archaeological record, primary data source. Use of language shapes culture and perceptions; ex, a prof with a southern accent would seem exotic in. Australia but would not be taken seriously in an american university.
