ANTH 1170 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Ethnocentrism, Racism, Quo (Status Quo Album)
20 Nov 2018
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Anthropology - the study of humans; in essence, the study of all people throughout time and across space. Holism - the study of the entirety of the human condition; past, present, and future as well as biology, language, culture, and society (kottak). Involves interplay; no group is limited to any single category. Anthropology as a socio-historical science; contemporary yet rooted in the past. 6,000,000 years ago - evolutionary divergence of chimps and the species that would become homo sapiens (h. sapiens) 200,000 years ago - origin of h. sapiens. 40,000 years ago - cultural revolution; explosion of artistic expression (ie. cave art) 10,000 years ago - domestication of plants and animals; marked the change from h. sapiens as a society composed of hunter-gatherers to a society composed of farmers. 6,000 years ago - the advent of reliable food sources spurred a substantial population growth, which in turn led to the formation of the first densely populated cities.
