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What is Anthropology?
How is the discipline defined?
How is the discipline distinguished
from others, how is it unique?
Central Themes or Questions
• How is the discipline distinguished from
others, how is it unique?
• What is the nature of being human?
• What makes humans unique among
mammals?
• How are we distinct from other primates?
• How did we become the way we are?
• Is it Nature or Nurture?
• Why are people different around the world?
• How can we make the world a better place?
Definition of Anthropology
• ‘Anthropos’ is the Greek term for
Humanity
• ‘ logos” is the Greek term for Study
Anthropology
• A comparative and holistic social science.
• Comparative: human diversity, past and present
(primates included)
• Holism: Considering a whole system Utilizes
biology, psychology, history, ecology, &
geography. Studies of all aspects of humanity
• Participant Observation: living with informants,
direct observation
• Indigenous and Tribal groups: Other disciplines
tend to ignore these groups
Four Subdisciplines of
Anthropology
• Cultural or Social (Sociocultural)
• Physical or Biological
• Linguistics
• Archaeology
Anthropological Approaches
• Forensics
• Grave Excavations in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Rwanda, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Iraq
What is the study of Linguistics?
• Settlement Patterns
• Dietary Reconstruction
• Technology
• Ideology
• Subsistence
Applied Archaeology