ANTH 002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sociocultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology
10 Jun 2020
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The study of human nature, human society, and the human past. A discipline that draws from various disciplines including the social sciences, the humanities, and the biological sciences. Anthropology is a "holistic, comparative, field based and evolutionary" discipline. "the study of the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future; biology, society, language, and culture". Anthropology draws from and investigates similar topics as scholars of religion, researchers or human biology, practitioners of economics, or academics working in a geography department. Goal is to provide an "encompassing picture of human life" Consider the "similarities and differences in a wide a range of human societies before generalizing about human nature, human society, or human history". When making comparisons, "anthropologists recognize that all social groups deserve equal treatment and respect, and they reject terms such as exotic, primitive, and savage to describe practices that differ from those of their own group". The nature of anthropology: how cultures are studied.
