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| The study of people and cultures from all times and all places |
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| What are the four fields of Anthropology? |
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| Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology |
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| What is sociocultural anthropology? |
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| Study of patterns of human behavior, thought, and feelings |
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| Detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork |
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| Study and analysis of different cultures from a comparative of historical point of view, utilizing ethnographic accounts and developing anthropological theories that help explain why certain important differences or similarities occur among groups |
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| The study of human languages-- looking at their structure, history, and relation to social and cultural context |
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| the branch of anthropology that studies human cultures through the recovery and analysis of material remains and environmental data |
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| Also known as biological anthropology is the study of humans as biological organisms |
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| The study of human remains for identification in the use of legality reasoning |
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| Example of Forensic Anthropology |
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| Karen Burns, of the University of Georgia was part of a team sent to northern Iraq after the Gulf War to investigate alleged atrocities. On a military base where there had been many executions, she excavated the remains of a man's body found lying on its side, facing Mecca, in Islamic practice. Although no intact clothing eisted, two polyester threads typically used in sewing were found along the sides of both legs. Although, the threads survived, the clothing, because it was made of naturalfiber, had decayed. Proper though his position was, no Islamic family would bury their own in a garment sewn with polyester thread. Proper ritual would require a simple shroud. Thus is family did not bury him. |
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| a specialization in anthropology that combines theoretical and applied approaches from cultural and biological anthropology with the study of human health and disease |
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| a branch of biological anthropology that uses genetic and biochemical techniques to test hypotheses about human evolution, adaptation, and variation |
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| Importance of Cross-Cultural Perspective |
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| A cross-cultural, comparative, and long-term evolutionary perspective distinguishes anthropology from all other social sciences |
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| Problem of Culture-Bound Theories |
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| Culture bound theories of human behaviour; that is, theories based on assumptions about the world and reality that come from the researcher's own particular culture. |
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The term theoretical is sometimes informally used in lieu of hypothetical to describe a result which is predicted by theory but has not yet been adequately tested by observation or experiment.
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| Original Study: Traditional Zulu Healers and AIDS |
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| A fundamental principle of anthropology: that the various parts of human culture adn biology must be viewed in the broadest possible context in order to understand their interconnections and interdependence |
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| Comparison: Organ Transplant in USA and Japan |
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