ANTH 202- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 166 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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A humanistic discipline that studies the diversity of human kind in its cultural manifestations (focuses on meanings rather than measurements, texture of everyday life rather than generalizations) Started with a focus on small-scale societies, uncovering details of peoples lives though sustained contact known as participant observation, which is conducted during fieldwork. Going to faraway places is linked to the discipline"s history and intellectual premises as well as to the anthropologists" own history and interests. Many anthropologists now study closer to home or at home as the reasons for choosing a field site have changed and the site itself may feed into the topic and theoretical questions that one selects. Physical anthropologists (first subfield) study the physical dimension of human beings; divided into paleontologists and primatologists: paleontologists study human evolution (paleontology) => how pre-human creatures became human beings, the ancestry of homo. A famous example is the discovery in ethiopia in 1974 of.
