ANT102H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Shared Experience, Biological Anthropology, Intentionality
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Cultural anthropology: study of cultures and societies of human beings and their very recent past. Archaeology: study of past societies and their cultures, especially the material remains of the past. Linguistics anthropology: study of language and how language is structured and the evolution of language and the social and cultural contexts of language. Physical anthropology: also called biological anthropology, it"s the study of human evolution of the past and present. Clifford geertz is one of the most famous anthropologists. Hes said, the world isnt divided into the pious (believing in god) and the superstitious. Anthropologists don"t believe that power is centralizes. Everyone sees things from their own perspective. A sign is anything which stands to someone for something else in some respect or capacity . People have the ability to recognize natural signs. Humans and some animals have the capacity of making signs. Smoke is a sign of fire (natural meaning) Pointing to fire is a non-natural meaning.
