1. ANTHROPOLOGY
THE STUDY OF HUMANITY FROM ITS EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS TO TODAY’S CULTURAL DIVERSITY

2. KEY CONCEPT CULTURE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO ACT AS A MEMBER OF SOCIETY
KNOWLEDGE OF EXPECTATIONS
KNOWLEDGE OF APPROPRIATE AND WRONGFUL ACTIONS

3. ANTHROPOLOGY FOCUSES ON STUDY OF HUMANS AND ALL ASPECTS OF BEING HUMAN
FIELD HAS MANY CONCEPTS AND SUBJECTS IN COMMON WITH OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
KEY CONCEPTS DISTINGUISH ANTHROPOLOGY FROM OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINES

4. KEY TERMS SOCIETY CULTURE COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE
ETHNOCENTRISM
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
GLOBALIZATION

6. SOCIETY SHARED GEOGRAPHICAL TERRITORY
PEOPLE LIVING IN ORGANIZED GROUPS WITH SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND EXPECTATION OF BEHAVIOR
RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS

7. UNIQUE SOCIAL SCIENCE Time Depth Global Focus Comparative Approach
Holistic
Four Field Approach
Core Concept of Culture
Globalization

8. HOLISTIC View Cultures from holistic perspective
Culture as integrated whole.
No part of culture can be studied in isolation
Study culture means studying the relationship between Things

9. EXAMPLE OF HOLISM
Arrangement of Furniture in USA reflects core cultural value of individualism
Arrangement of rooms is directly related to marriage and family patterns which in turn related to way Americans earn a living
Individual bedrooms reflect value on individualism & consistent with an economy where families are dependent on individual wage earners

10. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Anthropology is basically comparative bases its findings on cultural data drawn from throughout the world and from throughout human history
Collect data about behavior and beliefs in many societies in order the diversity of human cultures
Also, to understand common patterns in ways people adapt to their environment, adjust to their neighbors, and develop cultural institutions

12. BENEFITS OF COMPARATIVE VIEW
Challenge commonly held assumptions about human life- ways based solely on European and North American perspective
For Example “Marriage”
Cultural Institution
Monogamy not the preferred type of marriage in majority of societies

13. CULTURE
Learned values, beliefs, rules of conduct shared to some extent by the members of society, that govern their behavior with one another and their thinking about themselves and the world.
Everything that people have, think, and do as members of a society
All cultures are comprised of material objects; ideas, values, attitudes and patterned ways of behaving.

14. Four Fields ARCHAEOLOGY BIOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

16. ARCHAEOLOGY STUDY OF PAST CULTURES PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC
RELAY ON EVIDENCE (ARTIFACTS) FROM MATERIAL CULTURE AND THE SITES WHERE PEOPLE LIVED
EVIDENCE REALS HOW PEOPLE LIVED AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GROUPS OF PEOPLE.

18. ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND THE SPEAKERS USE OF LANGUAGE AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND OTHER ASPECTS OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY
CULTURE IS LEARNED THROUGH LANGUAGE
HISTORIC AND DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS

19. PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Biological Anthropology
Study of Human origins (evolution) and contemporary Human variation
Primate social organization
Interface between biology and culture. Ex Andes greater lung capacity adaptation to low oxygen

21. HUMAN VARIATION “Race” is always a social not a biological concept
Conventional Classification of “Races” is pseudoscience.
Hair texture, skin color and facial characteristics are arbitrary and randomly selected
Skin tone is function of evolutionary adaptation to climate
Race as conventionally used is wrong!

22. APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGIST
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
BRIDGES DISCIPLINE OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND BIOLOGY
STUDIES SUSCEPTIBILITIES AND RESISTANCE OF CERTAIN POPULATION TO SPECIFIC DISEASE
STUDIES HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM

23. FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
SUB-FIELD WITHIN BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANALYZE HUMAN REMAINS IN SERVICE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND FAMILIES OF DISASTER VICTIMS
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
GENOCIDE

25. APPLIED ARCHAEOLOGY CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
APPLICATION OF ARCHAEOLOGY TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HISTORIC STRUCTURES AND PREHISTORIC SITES
OUTGROWTH OF FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS TO PROTECT PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC SITES

26. CONTRACT ARCHAEOLOGY
APPLICATION OF ARCHAEOLOGY TO ASSES THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CONSTRUCTION ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
SALVAGE ARCHAEOLOGY

28. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
The ways people organize their living in societies
The study of cultural behavior in recent and contemporary cultures
Ethnology-building theories to explain cultural practices based on comparative study of societies throughout the world
Ethnography, a holistic intensive study of groups, through observation, interview and participation

30. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ETHNOGRAPHY
ETHNOGRAPHER
FIELD WORK
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

32. ETHNOCENTRISM
The widespread human tendency to perceive to perceive the ways of doing things and beliefs about things in one’s culture as normal and natural and that of others as strange, inferior, and possibly un-natural
One’s own culture is superior, the best and others are inferior
Everybody everywhere is a little ethnocentric

34. CULTURAL RELATIVISM Counters Ethnocentrism
Stresses the importance of analyzing cultures in their own terms rather than in terms of the culture of the anthropologist
This does not mean that all cultural practices, cultural beliefs and behaviors can be condone
Different from ethical relativism—all right and wrong relative to time, place, and culture so that no moral judgments of behavior can be made

36. GLOBALIZATION DISTINGUISHES ANTHROPOLOGY FROM OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES
CULTURAL CONTACT AND CONTACT CHANGES SPECIFIC CULTURES
RAPID TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURES WORLD WIDE IN RESPONSE TO ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INFLUENCES

38. GLOBALIZATION
OCCURRED IN THE PAST WHEN STATES AND EMPIRES EXPANDED THEIR INFLUENCE BEYOND THEIR BOARDERS
COLONIALISM
CONTEMPORARY GLOBALIZATION BASED ON INTERCONNECTED ECONOMIES CHANGE CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL

39. AMERICANIZATION BY PRODUCT OF GLOBALIZATION
THE SPREAD OF DOMINANT AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN CULTURAL PRACTICES, CONSUMERISM, CULTURAL ICONS, AND MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT