ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-7: Unilineality, Fallacy, George E. Marcus
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Logia: the study of: 4 subfields. Biological: focuses upon the study of the evolution, function, and the health of the human body and our closest primate ancestors across time and space. Sociocultural: a comparative approach to the study of societies and cultures that focuses on the differences and similarities in the ways that societies are structured and cultural meanings created. Archeology: studies human history and artifacts. typically look at the material remains of human groups in order to learn how people lived: bronislaw malinowski: understand their lives from the native"s point of view (sociocultural) !1: culture: system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things, !2 quantitative and qualitative methods including interviews, participant observation, and survey based research. Involve the collection, study, an analysis of the writings of missionaries, explorers and colonists who at sustained contact with non-western peoples.
