ANTHROP 2PA3 Study Guide - Winter 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - India, Wood, Modular Arithmetic
30 Mar 2019
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Patterns of human behaviour reveals insights into how humans beings structure and are structured by their world and each other. Anthropological arc: relationship btwn arc and other disciplines, questions, methods, and interpretations, traditional disciplinary boundaries and interdisciplinary. What is anthrop: the study of human beings, human-ness, and human socs explaining our similarities our differences and why we came to be. Long term (over millennia: materials based, multidisciplinary, multi-methodological. Fills in the blanks: holistic, rooted in analogy and comparison, relational. Other arc: major difference deep history of others vs deep history of selves. Ex modern development and construction: pot hunting and looting things get jumbled, out of context, natural (n-transforms, differential preservation, natural disturbances rodents, earthworms (bioturbation), erosion. 10cm increments so you know you"re peeling away layers whether or not they are natural or cultural: going deeper in time, when you can"t distinguish when they are different strata layers.
