Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Anthropos = Humanity
Anthropology’
Anthropology’s Reputation:
Geographical Scope
Temporal Scope
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Cultural
Archaeology
Applied
anthropologists
come in all four
By approximate flavors
numbers within
each subdiscipline
Physical Anthropology
Human Variation
– The study of how and why contemporary
and recent human populations vary
biologically
– Race → Human Adaptation
• Modern populations and skeletal remains
– Borrow techniques and concepts from:
• Human Genetics:
Genetics: inheritance of traits
• Population Biology:
Biology: impact of the environment
• Epidemiology:
Epidemiology: impact of diseases
Physical Anthropology
University of Alabama
– ANT 270: Introduction to Physical
Anthropology
• Offered in the Fall
• Syllabus:
– http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/bindon/ant270/syllabus.pdf
• Web site:
– http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/bindon/ant270/
• Lab work with hands on experience
Cultural Anthropology
– Prehistory:
Prehistory: study of the material remains of pre-
pre-
literate peoples
– Historical Archaeology:
Archaeology: study of the material remains
of peoples who also left written records.
Archaeology
University of Alabama
– ANT 103: Great Discoveries in Archaeology
• SB core credit
• Syllabus:
– http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/courses/ANT103.pdf
– ANT 107: Introduction to Archaeology
• SB core credit
• Syllabus:
– http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/courses/Ant107.pdf
Linguistic Anthropology
University of Alabama
– ANT 210: Language and Culture
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
University of Alabama
– ANT 102: Introduction to Cultural
Anthropology
• Same format as 100: lecture and lab
• Syllabus:
– http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/courses/ANT102.pdf
• Humanistic perspective
– emphasis on relativity
– emphasis on the understandings of
participants
– emphasis on meaning
• Scientific perspective
– emphasis on objectivity
– emphasis on observation
– emphasis on explanation
Anthropological Skills
• Cultural Relativism:
Relativism: view other cultures from their
own internal perspective
– Interact with people of diverse cultures, making allowances for
differences in customs and beliefs
– Provide insight into social problems by supplying information about
how issues such as aging or bereavement are dealt with in other
cultures
• Social Sensitivity:
Sensitivity anthropologists learn the
importance of events and conditions that cause people to do
things differently
• Social Agility:
Agility: learn how to quickly size up of the “cultural
rules”
rules” of novel social settings
• Social Perspective:
Perspective: learn to evaluate how the behavior of
individuals is shaped by their positions in specific socio-
socio-cultural
systems
– This enables the anthropologist to “act locally and think globally”