ANTH 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Primatology, Paleoanthropology, Essentialism
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Anthropology is defined as the study of human nature, human society, and human past. Anthropology is holistic and this holism draws together anthropologists whose specialties might otherwise be divided. Finally, it is a field-based discipline meaning that data collection takes place away from the office and in direct contact with the sites. Anthropologists try and come up with generalizations about what it means to be human that is valid across space and over time. Evolution is at the core of anthropological perspective. Cultural evolution concerns the change over time in beliefs, behaviors, and material objects that shape human development. Culture is a set of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society together with the material structures and artifacts that we use. Divided into 4 subfields: biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology. Biological anthropology: mostly focused on race at the beginning, primatology and paleoanthropology are subfields.
