ANT102H5 Midterm: Study terms for D.Jackson's midterm
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Study terms for antro midterm: anthropology study of humanity from its evolutionary origins millions. Linguistic anthropology nature of language itself and the of years ago to its present worldwide distribution and diversity relationship between language and culture. The way human think about and use language to accomplish certain practical and symbolic feats. Socio-cultural anthropology study of how people organize experience, the world, and their social interactions and how they adapt to various environments. Physical/biological anthropology study human origins and contemporary biological diversity, particularly between human and primates (what distinguishes us from animals): archaeology study material culture to reconstruct life of humans through history (using fossils and rock evidene). Map cultural change though time and make connections between cutures. Applied anthropology from all 4 subfields and use knowledge/skills to work outside of academia in order to resolve social issues. (preventing war, conservation biology, forensic anthropology). Ethnography primary method of understanding cultural variation and social change.
