[ANTH 1001] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 110 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1001
• Professor: Amanda Joy

Document Summary

4 subfields in anthropology: social/cultural (sociocultural)- focus of our course. Applications of anthropology: forensic anthropology, medical anthropology, development anthropology, embedded anthropology, museum studies, legal testimony. Anthropology is like detective work : seeking clues to meaning, interpreting signs, taking into account local history, politics, economics, religion, family life, etc, strongly qualitative, somewhere in between science and art. We will make the strange familiar, and the familiar seem strange. Foundational categories of human existence- language, clothing, space, time, etc. Study of people alive today anywhere in the world. Linguistic- what makes language special, parts of language, how languages differ from each other and things you can do with language (sociolinguistics) Biological/physical (biophysical)- evolutionary development of human body, how humans as species came to be, similarities/differences with primates- study of humans through evolutionary development. Archaeology- all artifacts, remains and clues people leave behind that show they were once here. Taking into account local history, politics, economics, religion, family life,