ANTHR101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Co-Determination, Donna Haraway
14 Jan 2016
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Anthropologists want to learn about as many different ways of life as they can. Archeologists reconstruct ancient ways of life from traces left behind. Anthropology: the study of human nature, human society, and the human past. Scholarly discipline that aims to describe what it means to be human o: human lives are entangled in complex patterns of work and family, power and meaning. Anthropology is holistic, comparative, field-based, and evolutionary o: holism: draws together anthropologists whose specializations might otherwise divide them o o. Comparative: must not only look at our culture, but many others as well. Field-based: has evolved from arm-chair research , spend time immersed in the culture/place that they are studying. Evolutionary: examines the physical/biological evolution of the human species, as well as cultural and societal changes. Biological evolution: includes topics of human origins, genetic variation and inheritance of different peoples; evolution from prehistory to the present.
