ANTH 1001 Chapter : ANTH

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15 Mar 2019
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Anthropology: the study of people (there are many factors that define what it means to be human, biocultural approach- perspective anthropologists take when studying humans. Can be anything from excavation, working with an informant in a foreign land, studying in a lab or library: ethnocentric v. cultural examples. Anthropology: four subfields (in america), each is broad and they can overlap, linguistic anthropology: focuses on the study of language (how sounds are put together to create meaning). They also analyze the artifacts in their lab: biological (physical) anthropology, biological anthropology: the study of humans from a biological perspective including the past and the present, and also the study of nonhuman primates, past: fossil record, ex. Turkana boy (homo erectus)- a nearly complete skeleton found from 1. 6 million years ago. American anthropology: (don"t need to know exactly when a person was born and when they died: franz boas (late 1800s early 1900s-turn of the 20th century)

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