Anthropology - SSTP

Anthropology

• study of humanity w/ the application of biology, cultural studies, archaeology, linguistics, and other social sciences

• questions the idea of humanity’s:

  • origins, behavior, interaction, cultural connections

• study of what makes us human

methodologies of anthropology

• examines how people navigate the complexity of making and maintaining ordinary lives

ethnography

• a methodology of anthropology

• describes what constitutes a social phenomenon

• immerses itself in the community or in nature

• qualitittitative research

Research

• a methodology in anthropology

• critical analysis of human interactions and relationships within a community

• can be qualitative and/or quantitative

fieldwork

• face to face study of the subject matter

• primary and first hand data gathering of social issues

applications of anthropology

• divided into two types:

  • physical (biological)

  • cultural (culture)

Physical anthropology

• biological origins of humanity

• concerned w/ the evolotion of the human fossil records

• genetic diversity, all about biology

• analysis of our diversity PERIOOOOD

Cultural anthropology

• study of human culture

• concerned more with studying the diversity of human culture

• versatile and used in contemporary contexts

• has subcultures

Anthro within the philippines

• analysis of the migration of austronesians

• how filos arrived in the ph

• study of the cultural diversity within it