Unit 1: Intro to Anthropology

Anthropology: 3 main branches and their sub-branches

What are the three main branches of anthropology?

*Physical, Cultural, and Forensics*

What are the sub-branches of the *Physical* branch?

Biological and Primatology

What are the sub-branches of the *Culture* branch?

Linguistics and Ethology/Sociocultural (origins of human culture/laws & ethics)

What is forensic anthropology?

Forensics antropologists are typically paleoantrhopologists or archaeologists, they: Provide evidence for police to use, investigate mass murders, disasters, wars, homicides, and suicidal/accidental deaths.

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They also determine general information on the remains such as its sex, age at death, height, etc.

Physical - Biological

How Covid transmitted to humans and how they were affected by environmental & social conditions (e.g. African people w/ their bush meat)

Physical - Primatology

Our evolution from primates and the thinking and communication pattern similarities

Cultural - Archaeology

The study of man-made objects (weapons, clothes, etc) to explore the every day lives of humans in different cultures; paleontology studies fossil evidence to support

Cultural - Linguistic

How language impacts culture → the structure of the language and the connections between language, the brain, and cultural behaviour

Ethology/Sociocultural

The study of human cultures (origion, development, function); Culture and their norms are taught, they are not something predetermined before birth.