Anthropology Midterm 1

Notes from Intro Human Origins

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Psychology
Study of mind, individual behaviour
Sosiology
Study of group (mob) behaviour
History
Study complexity of written past
Writing
Based on a system o f abstract symbols
Art
Room for interpretation, no concrete meaning
Anthropology
Social science, study of man, and all things connected to him, past, present, future
4 sub-division
Cultural, physical, archaeology, linguistic
Origin of anthropology
1870 Edward B Tylor
First in Canada
Early 20th CWilfred Laurier established Anthro division
Originally used for
Colonial dominance, control of indigenious peoples
Function (now)
Understand simple/ complex societies, fight for rights of indigenious peoples
Goal of Anthro
To understand humanity and diversity, includes neasest biological relattives (primates). search for fundamental and universal patterns of behavious. Cultural foundations
Culture
Corpus of learned behaviour practised by a group, transmitted between generations
Culture used to
Survive, adapt, interact
Instinct
Genetically determined behavious, predetermined