ANTH 1101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Breaks into four conventional elds: biological or physical anthropology. Study of humans as biological organisms: primate relations. Humans: human evolution, human physical diversity, archaeology. Variety of methods: digging, laboratory research and testing, linguistic anthropology. Structures of human languages: universal features, and di erences. Recent use of non gender speci c pronouns". Wednesday, september 6, 2017: they and they"re and their, human invented languages. Lor - elvish: older no longer used languages being restarted, cultural anthropology - focus in class. Study of living human cultures: mainly focuses on contemporary cultures. Participant-observation in eld work: become immersed in the actual culture. I. e. live in the village, part take in daily life in the culture of research. Can also be cross cultural study": ethnography. Interaction of human groups with their environment. Applying anthropological knowledge and techniques to the solving of practical real-world problems: di erences between anthropology and sociology. Anthropology: historically focused on non-western peoples.
