ANTH 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Primatology, Community Archaeology, Paleoanthropology
17 Aug 2016
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Anthropology: the study of the human species and its immediate ancestors. Holistic: encompassing past, present, and future; biology, society, language and culture. Culture: traditions and customs transmitted through learning. Enculturation: a process where people learn tradition by growing up in a particular society. Cultural traditions include customs, opinions, developed over generations, about proper and improper behavior. Transmitted through learning, not through biological inheritance. Adaptation: the processes by which organisms cope with environmental forces + stresses. Food production: the cultivation of plants and domestication of animals. Foraging: hunting and gathering of nature"s bounty. General anthropology: anthropology as a whole- cultural, archaeological, biological + linguistic anthropology aka four-field anthropology. Cultural: focuses on societies of the present + recent past. Archaeological: reconstructs lifeways of ancient + more recent societies through analysis of material remains. Biological: studies human biological variation through time + across geographic space. Linguistic: examines language in its social + cultural contexts. Historical reasons for the 4 subfields in north america:
