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This document provides an overview of anthropology as an academic discipline. It explains that anthropology takes a holistic approach to understanding what it means to be human, integrating insights from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The document outlines the four main subfields of anthropology: archaeology studies human manipulation of the material environment and artifacts of past societies; physical anthropology examines human biological evolution and similarities to other species; linguistic anthropology focuses on language use, acquisition, and change over time; and cultural anthropology describes and analyzes shared beliefs and how they shape human behavior.
Lesson4
- 1. SOCIOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY & POLITICAL SCIENCE Nature & Beginning of Social Sciences
- 2. The Dark Ages –>Age of Enlightenment
- 3. What now?
- 6. What Is Anthropology? Anthropology is the scientific study of what it means to be human
- 12. What Is Anthropology? As a scholarly discipline, anthropology straddles the sciences, social studies and humanities.
- 13. What Is Anthropology? What makes anthropology unique is its holistic approach: the notion that hard sciences, social sciences and humanities can all speak to one another within the same disciplinary
- 14. Anthropology recognizes that almost all phenomena “are simultaneously real, like nature, narrated, like discourse, and collective, like society.”
- 15. The Four Fields Human Characteristic Anthropological Subfield Humans shape their material environment Archaeology Humans differ in their physical form Physical/Biological Anthropology Humans have a unique communication system Linguistic Anthropology Humans act according to learned knowledge systems Cultural Anthropology What makes human beings unique?
- 16. Archaeology Studies the ways humans manipulate their material environment Examines material environment of past societies for clues about their lives
- 17. Physical Anthropology Examines the ways humans are biologically similar to and different from other animals Primatology Human Evolution
- 18. Linguistic Anthropology How humans use language to communicate The spread and transformation of language Language acquisition Language revitalization
- 19. Cultural Anthropology Describes and analyzes the beliefs people have about their social and material worlds, and the ways these affect human action