Cultural Anthropology An Applied Perspective, 5e

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• Introduction to Anthropology
• Defining Anthropology
• Sub-fields
• Physical Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Linguistics
• Cultural Anthropology
• How is Anthropology Done?
• Scientific Method
• Field Work
• Development of Anthropology
• Blasphemy
• Travel
• Elitism
• Contributions of Anthropology
• Understanding and Tolerance
• Real World Application

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Anthropology

• What is human?
• How did we get here?
• Where are we going?
• (How did I get here? What is this class?)

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What is Anthropology?

• Anthropology is the study of people
• their origins
• their development, and contemporary variations
  (physical and cultural)
• wherever and whenever they have been found

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How is anthropology different from other social
and behavioral sciences? ..holistic

• Huge range of subject matter/sciences
• Both biological and sociocultural aspects of
  humanity.
• From the earliest beginnings of humans to the
  present.
• Comparative/global everybody
• Anthropology studies all varieties of people
  everywhere.
• Allows defining humans cultural universals

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Sooo, what do they do and how do they do
it?Through subfields

• Physical Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Anthropological Linguistics
• Cultural Anthropology

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Physical Anthropology

• some sub-sub fields
• Paleoanthropology
• Emergence of humans and how humans have evolved
• Fossils, but also paleogeology, paleoclimatology,
  etc.
• Biological Anthropology
• Human variation
• Sociobiology (Primatology), etc.
• Applied Physical Anthropology
• Forensic Anthropology, etc.

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Human Biological Variation
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Archaeology

• Study people from the past by analyzing material
  culture they leave behind
• Artifacts
• Example tools, arrowheads.
• Features
• Examples foundations and fireplaces.
• Ecofacts
• Examples bones, seeds, and wood.

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Archaeology

• Not bones.stuff (artifacts)
• Historical/Prehistoric
• Contract archaeology, etc.
• Even garbageaeologists

(what might be left of this room?)
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Anthropological Linguistics the study of the
relationship between languages and human behavior

• Also reveals things about humans
• Why would language be particularly important in
  Anthropology?
• . culture

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Cultural Anthropology - the study of the
similarities and variation in living cultures
some sub-sub fields

• Economic anthropology
• Psychological anthropology
• Educational anthropology
• Medical anthropology
• Urban anthropology
• Political anthropology
• Applied cultural anthropology

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Non-Academic Career Opportunities in Anthropology
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Non-Academic Career Opportunities in Anthropology
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Non-Academic Career Opportunities in Anthropology
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How do they do it?

• Scientific Method
• Fieldwork the part that doesnt happen in the
  office, but out in the field of study

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Fieldwork?....... no

• No, this isnt what you get to do, eithernot
  much, anyway

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More like

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Participant Observation
Participant observation through ceremonies
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Participant Observation
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Participant Observation
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Participant Observation
Participant observation in a  Tibetan Buddhist
monastery
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Participant Observation
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Development of Anthropology

• A long time to come about
• A tricky thing because
• Blasphemy (eeeek)
• Travel
• Elitism

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Contributions of Anthropology

• Understanding and Tolerance
• Individual
• The study of different cultures provides a better
  understanding of ones own culture and develops
  valuable leadership skills.
• Societal
• Understanding different cultures can contribute
  to the solution of pressing societal problems.

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!Kung San
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Contributions of Anthropology

• Real World Application
• The study of cultural anthropology prepares
  people for working in the global economy and even
  more importantly, living in the global world of
  the twenty-first century.