ANTHROPOLOGY

The study of Culture

WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY?
Definition (Google)

• ANTHROPOLOGY is the study of human societies and

culture and their development.

• It is also the study of human Biological and

physiological characteristics and their evolution.
Book

•Anthropology is the HOLISTIC

SCIENCE OF MAN, a science of the
totality of human existence.
•Came from the greek word
“Anthropas”, meaning human
and “Logos”, study.
FRANZ BOAS
• The father of Modern Anthropology

• Considered also as the founder of Modern

Anthropology

• The father of American Anthropology

• He gave Modern Anthropology its rigorous
scientific methodology, patterned after the
natural sciences.

• Boas also originated the notion “Culture” as

learned behaviors.
Carol Ember, Melvin Ember and Peter
Peregrine (2009)

• To distinguish Anthropology from other disciplines,

Anthropology should be definedto be “the study of
relationship between biological traits and socially
acquired characteristics.”
2 Broad fields:
• Physical Anthropology
- mainly concerns about how humans emerged
and evolved through time
- also concerns how human beings differ
biologically.
- is under the study of human paleontology
•Cultural Anthropology
- concerns the difference of
culture from time to time.
3 main Branches of Cultural Anthropology
• Archeology- studies past culture through tangible or material
remains. Reconstruct the life and culture of the human in prehistoric
time.

• Anthropological- the Anthropological study of languages. Expains the

differences of languages by culture and how it is constructed.

• Ethnology- the study of recent or present cultures. Explains the

difference of cultures before and the recent through vigor research.
3 main Branches of Cultural Anthropology
• Archeology- studies past culture through tangible or material
remains. Reconstruct the life and culture of the human in prehistoric
time.

• Anthropological- the Anthropological study of languages. Expains the

differences of languages by culture and how it is constructed.

• Ethnology- the study of recent or present cultures. Explains the

difference of cultures before and the recent through vigor research.
3 main Branches of Cultural Anthropology
• Archeology- studies past culture through tangible or material
remains. Reconstruct the life and culture of the human in prehistoric
time.

• Anthropological- the Anthropological study of languages. Expains the

differences of languages by culture and how it is constructed.

• Ethnology- the study of recent or present cultures. Explains the

difference of cultures before and the recent through vigor research.