ANTHR101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Historical Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Historical Linguistics
5 Apr 2015
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Anthropology = in nite curiosity about humans, focusing on the study of di erences and similarities, both biological and cultural, in human populations. Concerned with typical biological and cultural characteristics of human populations in all periods and in all parts of the world. Scope of anthropology: broader both geographically and historically. Anthropology is concerned explicitly and directly with all varieties of people throughout the world. Beginning with immediate ancestors of humans from a few million years ago to the present to study human populations. First only focused on non-western cultures and left study of the west to other disciplines. Now anthropologists work in their own and other complex societies. In part they are motivated by the belief that any suggested generalization about human beings, any possible explanation of some characteristic of human culture or biology, should be shown to apply to many times and paces of human existence.
