ANTH 100A Lecture : ANTH 100 What is Anthropology.docx
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Anthropology is the holistic and comparative study of humans through space and time. This is an endeavor that involves the study of: human biology/evolution, cultures in the past, languages and culture in the present/recent: biological anthropology: The study of the biological evolution of humans and related primates. Paleoanthropology: the deep past of human kind, study of human and humanoid fossils and remains. Primatology: evolution, adaption and social characteristics of apes and monkeys. Human biology studies of human biological variations. Forensic anthropology: scientific study of human remains: archaeology. The study of human past through the analysis of material remains: linguistic anthropology. The study of world languages: cultural anthropology. The study of cultural diversity in the past and present. Ecological anthropology: deals with human and environment relationships over time. Anthropology of relation or gender or politics or economics etc .
