ANTH 1001 : Anth 1001 Exam 1
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Goal: understand what it means to be human. Linguistic anthropology: the study of human communication: how people talk or communicate and how they use their language, what are the social norms for communication, there are different ways to speak to certain people. You talk differently to different people: as humans, when did we begin to speak, how does gender affect speech, sex and gender are different. Sex is a biological term, while gender refers to norms and social roles for men and women: 2. ) Cultural (sociocultural) anthropology: culture: learned behavior in a culture that is distinct to that culture and is passed down through generations, cultures are evolutionary (they change, there are different subcultures in ever culture, 3. ) Archaeology: study of the past based on material remains (pottery, tools, ceramics, clothing: anything left behind by humans, one generally thinks of excavation, systematic and controlled removal, as you uncover, you destroy.
