ANTH 100 Chapter Notes -Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Biological Anthropology, Social Anthropology

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 100
• Professor: Mc Guire

Document Summary

Cultural anthropology sometimes called sociocultural anthropology , social anthropology or. Ethnology tend to specialize is one domain of human cultural activity investigated the patterns of material life found in different human groups cultural anthropologists collect their data during fieldwork. Linguistic anthropology study the way lagunage differences frequently correlate with differences in gender, race, class or ethnic identity try to understand language in relation to the broader historical or biological contexts considered a separate subfield of anthropology. Archaeology cultural anthropology of the human past involving the analysis of material remains discover about human history particularly before the development of writing use dating techniques to establish the age of artifacts. Applied anthropology use info gathered from the other anthropological specialties to address practical cross-cultural problems way of lending western science and non-western tradition to create substainable technologies. Medical anthropology one of the most rapidly growing branches of anthropology concerns itself with human health the factors that contribute to illness and disease.