ANTHROPOLOGY Flashcards
A DISCIPLINE OF INFINITE CURIOSITY ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE.
ANTHROPOLOGY
MEANING OF ANTHROPOS
HUMAN
MEANING OF LOGOS
THE STUDY OF
2 most renowned anthropologists who pioneered structural anthropology
- CLAUDE LEVI STRAUSS
- CLIFFORD GEERTZ
3 MAIN BRANCHES OF ANTHROPOLOGY
PHYSICAL, CULTURAL, AND ARCHEOLOGY
the study of human biology within the milieu of evolution. Physical anthropologists also analyze human fossil remains.
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
SEEKS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON THE EMERGENCE OF HUMANS
PALEONTOLOGY
HOW VARIOUS HUMAN POPULATIONS VARY BIOLOGICALLY
HUMAN VARIATION
PEOPLE WHO TRACE THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANS FROM PRIMATES
PRIMATOLOGISTS
SUBJECTS THAT USE NATURAL SCIENCES IN STUDYING MAJOR CONCERNS
- BIOLOGY
- CHEMISTRY
involves the study and comparative analysis of pre- literate societies, including all aspects of human behavior.
Aspects of human culture include religion, ritual, myth, technology, gender roles, kinship forms, economic and political structures, music and folklore.
CULTURAL/SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Cultural anthropologists employ ____ as a means to study and record different ways of life of human societies.
ethnography
The Study of Past cultures primarily through natural remains
ARCHAEOLOGY
The anthropological study
of languages
ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
Seeks to understand why and how people today and in recent past differ in their customary ways of
thinking and acting
ETHNOLOGY
