Week 1 Lecture 1

Friday, September 9th, 2022 Slideshow Professor Course Syllabus- Assignments Short reflection assignment (20%) - In class discussion activities (15%) - Mid-term october 17th (20%) - Public Anthropology Project (20%) - Cumulative Final Exam (25%) - What is anthropology? The study of humans across time and space - Four subfields Sociocultural - Linguistic - Biological - Archaeology - Biological (Physical) Anthropology Explores both biological and behavioral aspects of humanity - Evolutionary perspective - Study closest relatives- primates and early hominids - Examples: paleoanthropology, primatology, forensic anthropology - Archaeology Study past human lives- both ancient and recent - Study material remains to help understand how people lived - Examples: bioarcheology, zooarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, lithics - Linguistic Study of how humans communicate- language and communication are key aspects of society and culture - How language works, how it changes, how it is used - How language intersects with identity and power - Sociocultural The diversity of human societies and experience across time and space - Vary in both biology and behaviours - We are more similar than different - Study of human and human evolution - Study of the things we leave behind - We look at material remains and see how people lived and how society has changed through time - Lecture 1 Cultures Today Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:32 AM