ANTH 1001 : Physical Anthropology Exam 1
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Anthropology: anthropos- man, logos- to reason or study, the study of humankind in all times and places, the totality of the human experience. Four main differences: usually study other cultures , reduce ethnocentrism- your way of life is the right way and other ways are the wrong way of doing it, field work, comparative discipline, holistic. Cultural anthropology: study of customary patterns in human behavior, thought and feelings, describes, analyzes, interprets and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. Cultural anthropology examples: ethnography, recording and analysis of a culture or society, medical anthropology, kathleen dewier wrote dancing with skeletons. Studies in west africa and finds out that the fisher people believe that when the males pee red, the man and woman are ready to have kids. Found out that it was a parasite that caused it: urban anthropology, what life is like in the city.
