CLA 2110 Midterm: CLA2110 Mid Term Questions.doc

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 2110
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Cultural anthropology is a sub discipline of anthropology concerned with the non-biological, behavioural aspects of society; i. e. the social, linguistic, and technological components underlying human behaviour. Ethnography, the study of living cultures and ethnology which attempts to compare cultures using ethnographic evidence. In europe, it is referred to as social anthropology. Physical anthropology is a sub discipline of anthropology dealing with the study of human biological or physical characteristics and their evolution. In the broadest sense, just as archaeology is an aspect of anthropology, so too is it a part of history. Archaeology can also contribute a great deal to the understanding even of those periods and places where documents, inscriptions, and other literary evidence do exist. Archaeology is a science as well as a humanity. That is one of its fascinations as a discipline: it reflects the ingenuity of the modern scientist as wel as the modern historian.