ANTHR110 Lecture : Intro to Anthropology.pdf
8 Dec 2013
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Welcome to the course, which is an introduction to cultural or sociocultural anthropology. We will have two lectures and one discussion a week. Most of the requirements (a final exam, series of six papers adding up to about twenty pages; at least an hour a week of discussion) is set by the mit humanities distribution system. This lecture will be devoted to briefly introducing the field of anthropology. For really serious introductions to the field, you should consult a textbook. We now avoid the assumption that the human species is entirely male, might say instead the science of humanity. Still pretty nervy to make that claim, as if sociology, economics, history etc. weren"t sciences of humanity. Anthropology is different in that it has the broadest scope. Over time, covers several million years, from the first protohuman ancestors to the present. Widest range of societies, from small hunter-gatherer bands to modern countries.
