What is Anthropology
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- Hi everyone! My name is Ana. I am a student at Valencia College and I just began taking an Anthropology course out of interest and curiosity!
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- Before learning more of what Anthropology is, I had little knowledge of what this course is all about. The only thing I knew is that anthropology is the study of humans and how they evolved through centuries .
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- My perception of anthropology definitely changed after this lesson! It is much more than the study of human fossils, it has four fields: archaeology , biological, linguistic, and cultural.
- Linguistics is the description of the contexts that make human communication effective and meaningful! It involves Sociolinguistics which studies the relationships among language variation and social context.
- Biological anthropology is the study of nonhuman members of the order of mammals called primates, to which humans also belong. An example is paleoanthropology, which is the study of human evolution based on the fossile record.
- Archaeology is the study of human cultures through their material remains. Prehistoric archaeology studies the human past of societies without writing through their remains!
- Lastly, cultural anthropology is focused on the cultural variation among humans! I can't wait to learn more about it all!
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