ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Participant Observation, Neoliberalism, Potlatch

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Susan Chuang

Document Summary

The 5 fields of anthropology: cultural anthropology. Deals with the description and analysis of cultures. The socially learned traditions of past and present ages. Ethnography: a sub-discipline of cultural anthropology that describes and interprets present day cultures. A firsthand description of a living culture based on personal observation: archeology. Similar to the goals of cultural anthropology but differ in methods. Examines the material remains of past cultures left behind on or below the earth"s surface: anthropological linguistics. The study of the great variety of languages spoken by human beings. Attempt to trace the history of all known families of languages. Concerned with the way language influences and is influenced by other aspects of human life, with the evolution of language and our species. Study of animal origins and the biologically determined nature of homo sapiens. Study fossil remains of ancient human species to reconstruct the course of human evolution: physical anthropology, applied anthropology.