Ch. 1

Anthropology

  • Anthropology- Study of humans

    • Past and Present

    • cross-cultural context

4 Subfields of Anthropology

  1. Cultural Anthropology

    1. Examines social patterns

    2. Study cultural change, variation in cultural systems, and culture as species trait

  2. Linguistics

    1. Study of form, function, and social context of language

  3. Archeology

    1. Study of how people used to live based on artifacts

  4. Biological Anthropology

    1. Study of evolution as it relates to the human species

Subfields of Biological Anthropology

  1. Paleoanthropology

    1. Study of Fossil record of human kind and other primates

  2. Skeletal Biology and Osteology

    1. Study of the human Skeleton, how parts relate to each other, and the change in them over time

    2. Relationship between form and function

  3. Paleopathology and Bioarchaeology

    1. Study diesease in ancient human population

    2. Study human remains in archeological contexts

  4. Forensic Anthropology

    1. Identification of skeletal remains and cause of death

  5. Primatology

    1. Study anatomy, physiology, behavior, and genetics of primates

  6. Human Biology

    1. Study of human adaptation, nutrition, and variation

Physical Anthropology- The study of humans as biological organisms, considered in an evolutionary framework