The Branches Flashcards
Anthropologists
Anthropologist study humans living in diffrent social groups
⁃ Sources and devvelopment
⁃ Characteristics shared within culture
5 branches
Physical, Cultural, Linguistic, Archeology, Social Anthropology
Physical Anthropology
⁃ Study of human physical characteristics
⁃ Study modern cultures or fossil remains
Example characteristics of humans
⁃ Hair colour
⁃ Height
⁃ Skin colour
⁃ Brain size
Paleopathology
⁃ Human skeletons to find presentes of disease or injuries
⁃ Forensic anthropology
⁃ Use of modern procedures to find identification of dead
Primatology
⁃ How primatees (ex.apes) realte to develpopment of humans
Cultural Anthropology
The study of how cultures compare to each other
Characteristics
anything that separates different human cultures
Some things Anthropologists may study
artwork, housing, material products, language, symbols, laws and values
priminative or advanced cultures? (cultural archeology)
either
Applied anthropology
⁃ Using information from research to solve problems humans face today
Ethnology
⁃ Analyasis of diffrent cultures in modern science
Ethnography
⁃ A written record of a person in a culture
⁃ Visual anthropolgy
⁃ A branch of enthgraphy that uses photography, videotape and film
Linguistic
The study of development of language
Ethnoliguistics
⁃ Study of lanuggae of a ethnic group within culture
Sociolinguistics
⁃ Study how langugae effects parts of societies
Archeaology
⁃ Study of objects left behind by eariler people.
What may Archeologists study?
⁃ May study tools, artwork, structures, garbage
Paleontology
⁃ Study of development of earth life including plants and animals
Archeometry
⁃ Use of scientefic methods and data to find age of artifact
Social anthropology
⁃ Looks at social realtionships within human groups that part of institutes (ex.family, political systems, econimic systems)
⁃ Figure out what brings these groups together
⁃ What characteristics socienties find importnat
⁃ How people learn diffrent roles within societies
Ethnography
⁃ Study of human views of enviroment and societuy
⁃ Econimic anthropology
⁃ How goods/services are preduced/distributied
⁃ Political anthropology
⁃ How cultures and societies create political framework such as decision making
⁃ Religious anthropology
⁃ The study how religous belifes efect cutlure
What two branches do scientists sometimes combine?
⁃ Some scholers combine cultural and social branches
Which field of anthropology studies fossil remains to learn how human characteristics have developed?
physical anthropology
Which field of anthropology studies the symbols, laws, and values of a society?
cultural anthropology
Which field of anthropology studies how people in a society communicate with each other?
linguistic anthropology
Which field of anthropology studies the relationship of racial groups in a society?
social anthropology
Which field of anthropology studies the artifacts of broken dishes and iron pots that were created by an earlier civilization?
archaeology
Which field of anthropology studies the ancient lifestyles of the Hopi Indians?
archaeology
a field study of how an individual views his or her environment and society
ethnography
Which field of anthropology studies the relationship of apes and monkeys compared to the development of human beings?
primatology
