ANTH 1150 Chapter 1: Chapter 1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: R.Sylvain

Document Summary

Cultural or social: description and analysis of cultures the socially learned traditions of past and present ages ethnography describes and interprets present-day cultures. Archaeology: examining material remains of past cultures left behind on or below the surface of the earth. Linguistics: attempting to trace the history of all known families of languages the way language influences and is influenced by other aspects of human life, evolution and the change of languages. Physical or biological: seeking to reconstruct the course of human evolution by studying the fossil remains of ancient human and humanlike species seek out contributions made by heredity, natural environment and culture. Applied: uses findings of all the above to solve practical problems affecting the health, education, security and prosperity of human beings in cultural settings. Holism: the distinction of anthropology among the social sciences is that it is holistic, it tries to understand the processes that influence and explain all aspects of human thought and behaviour.