ANTHROP 1AA3 Chapter Notes -Linguistic Anthropology, Osteology, Primatology
29 Apr 2013
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The initial encounters between people of different societies. Goals are accomplished by anthropologists undertaking systematic case studies of people living in particular locations, in the past and present, and use comparative techniques to assess the similarities and differences among societies. Anthropo meaning human beings or humankind and logia meaning the study of. Different from other disciplines that study humankind because it has four subdisciplines that bridge the natural science, social sciences, and humanities together. Four subdisciplines/subfields: physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology/ethnology subdisciplines initially emerged in western society in an attempt to understand non-western peoples. Europeans began exploring and colonizing in the 15th century, and began finding other people of different races and cultures. They recorded their appearance, customs and beliefs forming anthro by the 19th century, anthro had developed into a primary disciplinary and science for understanding these non-western societies and cultures.
