ANTH100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ethnography, Ethnology, Forensic Anthropology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Robert Park

Document Summary

Anthropology - the study of human nature, human society, human language and the human past. Holism - a characteristic of the anthropological lens that describes how anthropology tries to integrate all that is known about human beings and their activities. Studies and describes what it means to be human. Anthropology is holistic, comparative, eld based and evolutionary. All aspects of human life interest and become integrated with one another over time. It is important to compare many different societies in order to capture a more realistic, bigger picture. Most research is conducted in the eld, with the people being studied (ethnographic) How we change and how our beliefs/societies change. Culture - sets of learned behaviour and ideas that humans acquire as members of society. Culture is used to adapt and transform the world. Humans learn how to survive from others. We don"t have natural animal instincts for food and shelter.