ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Linguistic Anthropology, Adaptive Radiation, Biological Anthropology
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Socio cultural anthropology- very common, every department would have socio cultural anthropology. Biological anthropology= physical anthropology = evolutionary anthropology is to make life very confusing. Human evolution, morphology, non human primates, things that you could physically major is known as physical anthropology. Genetics is part of physical anthropology- biological anthropology is almost the same as physical anthropology they are very interested about evolution of traits and behavior, physical structures, fossils, transmission between human, primates. Archaeology sub field of anthropology, not as common. They are interested in historical records what happened that all those people died of plantation and so on. Your data is material culture: physical manifestations of human activities (lewis et al, p. 10) ** Linguistic anthropology- not just verbal spoken language but as well as sign language. If you hear 3 fields linguistics would be out. Evolution definition: a change in the genetic structure of a population from one generation to the next (lewis et al, pg.
