Anthropology 1026F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lewis H. Morgan, James Hutton, Cultural Anthropology

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1026F/G
• Professor: Lisa Hodgetts

Document Summary

Week one: introduction and historical background (chapters one & two) Focuses on the behaviour and seeking to understand the nature of culture and its variety among different societies. Focuses on the issues such as evolution of speech, the historical connections between various human language systems and the ways in which language affects our perception of the world. Studies the past, material remains, physical traces and written material. Focuses on living organisms that are subject to biological processes that affect all other organisms. **all branches of anthropology work together toward a common goal: understanding the human species** +scientific method: the process by which phenomena are explained through observation and the development and testing of hypothesis. Is normally predicted on observations of the real world, generalizations from those observations and tests of those generalizations from those observations and tests of those observations.