ANTHR101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Applied Anthropology
13 May 2016
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Four fields of anthropology: applied anthropology in the middle, anthropological linguistics, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, archeology. What makes anthropology unique as a discipline: holistic approach looking at the bigger picture cross cultural perspective. Fieldwork: informants, participant observation, really important making the familiar strange, participant observation emic and etic, surveys. Origin of species: extinction possible/not possible, evolution possible/not possible, darwin natural selection. Human genetic diversity: 99. 9% of human dna is identical, markers account for 0. 1% of human variation, most variation in africa. To be biological entity race would have to have different genetics. Black mark on anthropology trying to make race a biologically different thing: race maker, what it means to be part of each race, race falls apart as you look into it critically, race biological to cultural. Human variation: adaptation, sexual selection, acclimatization, cultural influences (victorian corsets, feet binding etc. )
