ANTHROP 1AA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: George Mercer Dawson, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
10 Jun 2016
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Customs and rituals in both past and present societies. George mercer dawson responsible for establishment of professional canadian anthropology. 1910 pm wilfrid laurier established a division of anthropology within the. Holistic: a broad, comprehensive approach to the study of humankind drawing on the four subfields of anthropology and integrating both biological and cultural phenomena. Anthropologists are curious about typical characteristics of human populations - how/why populations and their characteristics have varied so much over the ages. Biological/physical anthropology: studies biological diversity of humans, their ancestors, and primates. Archaeology: studies past human cultures through their material remains. Seeks to answer questions about human biology in both past and present populations. Human palaeontology: the study of the emergence of humans and their later physical evolution. Palaeoanthropologists use fossils to reconstruct the history of human evolution (e. g. to determine first ages of bipedalism)
