ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Semiotic Anthropology, Evolutionary Anthropology, Colin Chapman
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Anthropology: is a holistic study of human culture and biology. Comprising five disciplines: socio-cultural anthropology, linguistic and semiotic anthropology, archaeology, medical anthropology, and biological anthropology. Linguistic and semiotic = focuses on how language and other systems of human contribute to reproduction, transmission, and transformation of culture. Socio-cultural is the comparative study of human culture and societies. Archaeology is the scientific study of the material evidence of human activities in the past: medical anthropology focuses on human health and its relationship with culture, behaviour, and biology. Holistic: considering all aspects of the research subject: biological anthropology is the study of human and non-human primates in their biological and demographic dimensions. Evolutionary anthropology, a specialized subdiscipline within biological anthropology is the application of. Modern evolutionary theory to studies of the morphology, ecology, and behaviour or human and non- human primates. E(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:455) (cid:271)iologist asked (cid:862)nothi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) (cid:271)iolog(cid:455) (cid:373)akes se(cid:374)se e(cid:454)(cid:272)ept i(cid:374) light of evolution (dobzhansky) Non-human primate: any primate that is not human.
