 Studies All Humans Everywhere  Studies All humans Through All Times  Humans as Biological and Cultural Beings

 Cultural Anthropology › What humans do, why they do it, and the consequences  Archeology › Study of people in the past using material culture  Physical (Biological) Anthropology › Human evolution, genetics, and physiology  Linguistics › Language and communication

 Knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capability acquired by humans as members of society  Material and Non-Material Culture › Non-Material Culture – What is in peoples’ heads  Beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions  Shared and Patterned  What people do – real and ideal culture  Material › What people make

 Ever Changing  Adaptation  Beliefs versus Social Structure  Beliefs versus Tradition

 Length of Research › Fieldwork  Language of Research  Research Methodologies › Participant Observation › Accidental Fieldwork › Ethnography › Ethnology

 What people believe  What people recognize  How people behave

 Evolution  Structural Functionalism  Historical Particulism  Symbolic Anthropology

 Global-International  Biome  National Culture  Tribal or Ethnic Identity  Regional, State, and Local culture

 Ethnic Identity  Race is a Social construct  Religion  Political Beliefs  Social Class  Education Level  Subsistence or livelihood strategy  Rural or Urban Setting  Age, historical age, development in life cycle

 Everyone is an immigrant  Melting Pot—No Salad Bowl  Democracy, Religious Freedom, and Capitalism  Progress is good Resistance is futile

 Ethnocentrism › Focused on one’s own ethnic group  Cultural Relativism › Understanding a culture in context, and not judging  Theory of Mind › Others have different thoughts, knowledge, and understandings  Culture Shock

 The world can’t be divided into us and them  People who look similar may belong to very different cultures  People who live in one country may belong to many different cultures  People who share culture may live in many different spots around the world  People who look very different then you may share your culture  People who look and act like you may in fact have very different views and beliefs  DON’T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS