ANTH 1003 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sociocultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
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Study of past cultures through their material remains. Fossils, tools, built structures, waste, historical archeology: may use written records. Study the history of the peopling of the americas. Protection and management of archeological, archival, and architectural resources: physical or biological anthropology. 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: sociocultural anthropology. The study of human society and culture. Culture: the set of learned behaviors and ideas that human beings acquire as members of a given society or community. Society: any more or less complex group of people, aka a community. Today we tend to refer to the group as a society and use culture to refer to beliefs and practices (gebusi are a society, not a culture) Topics of interest: what does it mean to be middle class in. American teenagers think about and express their identity: linguistic anthropology.