ANTH 2015 : ANTH 2015 Dr. Feathers Test 1 Notes
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To recover artifacts/ecofacts/material remains to analyze prehistoric and historic peoples, their cultures, their economy, etc. The evolutionary, holistic, and comparative study of humans. Holistic: the relation that all components of a culture are related. From anthropos (greek) meaning human being and - (o)logy meaning study of. Focuses on all aspects of contemporary human cultures. Ethnographers - describe the culture, technology, and economics of living and extinct societies. Ethnologists - engage in comparative studies of societies. Students sex and attitude towards sex in samoa. Learned and shared things that people have, do and think. Theoretical concept used to describe humankind"s external means of adapting to the natural environment. Human culture is a set of designs for living that helps mold our responses to different situations (fagan) Ritual - decorum and civic (everyday ritual) Focuses on human biology, past and present, including human biological evolution and contemporary biological diversity. Louis and mary leki funded jane goodall to go to cambridge.
