ANTH 1003 : Anthropology 1003 Final Exam Review
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Final exam review topics: define culture and know the characteristics of culture. Culture: the set of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of a given society or community. Involve the use of language, classification systems and symbols. Patterned, integrated, and shared by members of a group. Subculture: a system of perceptions, values, beliefs, and customs that are significantly different from those of a larger, dominant culture within the same society: name and briefly describe the four traditional sub-disciplines of anthropology in the united states. Study of past cultures through their material remains. Prehistoric societies are those with no usable written records. Human variation: physiological differences among modern humans. Primatology: study of apes for clues about the human species. Forensics: study and identification of skeletized or badly decomposed human remains (example: faces lab at lsu) The study of human society and culture.
