Introduction to Anthropology Anthropology Anthropos people man Logia study Study of people o Human history To Be Human Unique combination of 5 attributes o Bipedalism Walking on 2 legs o Material culture tools o Speech o Hunting tools and strategies o Domesticated foods plants and animals Anthropology Study of humans 4 Subfields o Cultural Study of human culture Study of shared learned behavior Patterns of behavior Political organization and social organization Rights of passage Puberty marriage child birth Ethnography Ethnology Book or writing of a single culture Book or righting comparing cultures Participant observation o Archaeology Study of patterns of behavior in the past Use material record Trash o midden trash heap Tomb Raiding vs Contextual Analysis o Linguistics o Physical Biological Recording dying languages Grouping language families Study phonetics Understanding how words are used How they change Track population movement Biological and bio cultural Humans past and present Primatology Study of non human primates Paleoanthropology Study of early hominins Evolution Crux of biological anthropology Human adaptation Forensics Legal system o Holistic Integrating all aspects Paleoanthropology and Human Evolution Primate human evolution Biological and geological background Theory of evolution o Origins of human species Bio archaeology Human remains in the past o 100 years Anthropology as a discipline Can the four subfields exist cohesively o Yes Anth is the science of humans How o By asking the same questions Add depth to each other s works Specialized but ultimate goal is broad How humans have changed and are changing
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