Fields of Anthropology

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Fields of Anthropology

• Robert Rhoades
• Dept. of Anthropology
• The University of Georgia, Athens

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Fields of Anthropology

• Scope of Anthropology
• Enormous range
• Theme What is human?
• Anthropology
• Not unique to Anthropology
• Scientific approach

Anthropos Greek for Man Logia Greek for Study
of Therefore Anthropology Study of Man
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• Some Views on Science
• Organized body of facts
• Objective view of reality
• Methods of science
• Prediction and control
• A way of rendering our experience intelligently
• Assumptions
• External world
• Ordered
• Discovery

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Fields of Anthropology

• Scope of Anthropology
• Enormous range
• Theme What is human?
• Anthropology
• Not unique to Anthropology
• Scientific approach
• Humans are biologically and culturally unique
• Two basic divisions physical anthropology and
  cultural anthropology

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Contd Fields of Anthropology

• Cultural Anthropology Time and space
• Archaeology cultural variability over time
• Ethnography variability over space
• Linguistics

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Linguistics
Function
Structure
Feet
English
Usarufan
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Language Changes

• Anglo-Saxon Ban Hund Cyning Modor
• Mod. English Bone Hound King Mother
• Mod. German Bein Hund König Mutter
• Glottochronology
• A method of dating divergence
• in branches of language family

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Contd Field of Anthropology

• Cultural Anthropology Time and space
• Archaeology cultural variability over time
• Ethnography variability over space
• Linguistics
• Physical Anthropology Time and space
• Paleontology
• Bioanthropology
• Applied Anthropology

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Integrated Fields of Anthropology
Humans
Cultural
Physical
Time
Archaeology
Paleontology (human)
Space
Ethnography (Ethnology/ linguistics)
Bioanthropology
Applied Anthropology