ANTHR101 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Linguistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR101
• Professor: Kateryna Pashkovska

Document Summary

There is always more than one valid perspective in anthropology; don"t dismiss each other but tend to examine things from different angles and points of view. Context is the key: ethnography: written record/presentation of empirical data on human societies and cultures; often re exive and based on direct contact with a culture, anthropology is . Study of human nature, human society, human language, the human past and present. 18th through the 19th century were mostly interested in the ways and traditions, folklore of their own people. Peasants in the village called this ethnology. E. g. kinship and social organization, material life and technology, subsistence and economics, world view. Developed to preserve languages on the verge of extinction. Question the important role played by language. Its impact on individual and social identities and ideologies. Physical form of the human body (bones, muscles, organs) How the body functions to facilitate survival and reproduction.