[ANTH 1001] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (173 pages long)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1001
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

The word anthropology is derived from two greek words: anthropos meaning man or human and logos, meaning thought or reason. The relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. The interactions between humans and the environment, including interactions with other species. The study of human abilities to manipulate symbols, to employ abstract thought and language. Comparative perspective: an approach in anthropology the employs data regarding the behaviour and beliefs in many societies to document cultural universals and cultural identity. A characteristic of the anthropological perspectives that requires anthropologists to consider similarities and differences in a wide range of human societies before generalizing about human nature, human society or human history. Focus is on present day society/ethnography and ethnology. Cross- cultural studies is the third form of cross-cultural comparisons. The rst is comparison of case studies, the second is controlled comparison among variants of a common derivation, and the third is comparison within a sample of cases.