UCSP ANTHROPOLOGY Flashcards
- scientific study of man
ANTHROPOLOGY
anthropos?
man
logy
study of
the study of people
throughout the world, their evolutionary
history, how they behave, adapt to
different environments, communicate
and socialize with one another.
Anthropology
consist of people who
interact in a definite
territory and share a
culture
Society
ways of life learned and
shared by people in social
groups
Culture
- changes occur over
period
Evolution
Anthropology aimed to understand our evolutionary origins,
our distinctiveness as a species, and the great diversity in
our forms of social existence across the world and through
time.
Goals of Anthropology
Proposed the theory of “Origin of the
Species”
Charles Darwin
“participant
observation” as a method in studying
culture”
Bronislaw Malinowski
Father of American
Anthropology; Historical
particularism; Cultural relativism
Franz Boas
“BLANK” Stated that Culture is a complex whole which includes
knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, law, custom,
and all aspects of man as a member of society
Edward B. Tylor
The study of people with their variations and progress in terms of culture
Cultural Anthropology
The study of language and communication’s
origins, history, and contemporary variation.
Linguistic Anthropology
The study of past human culture through the recovery and analysis of artifacts.
A r c h a e o l o g y
The study of humans as biological
organisms, including their evolution and
contemporary variation.
B i o l o g i c a l Anthropology
It analyzes social, political, and economic
problems and develop solutions to respond to present problems
A p p l i e d Anthropology
It concerns both with the biological features that make us human (such as physiology,
genetic makeup, nutritional history and
evolution) and with social aspects (such as
language, culture, politics, family and religion).
ANTHROPOLOGY
