ANTH 2010- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 15 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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What does each subfield study: defining anthropology. Anthropology is a discipline that uses comparative methods to study the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; biology, culture, language, and society. Three essential features of anthropology: data collection method--fieldwork. Fieldwork: a data-collection method where anthropologists go to the field to be in direct contact with the people, sites, or animals that are of interest to obtain information and data: three research perspectives. The holistic/integrated perspective i. the assumption that any aspect of a culture/society is integrated with other aspects, so that no dimension of culture/society can be understood in isolation ii. daoism. the insistence by anthropologists that valid hypotheses and theories about humanity be tested with information from a wide range of cultures i. artimisinin. Culture = sets of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society. Four traditional subfields: biological anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology. The aim of anthropology: the whole of the human condition.
