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Lesson 1 - Anthropology PPT

The document introduces the field of anthropology, emphasizing its importance in understanding human cultures, customs, and changes over time. It outlines the four main fields of anthropology: Cultural, Linguistic, Physical/Biological, and Archaeology, each focusing on different aspects of human life and history. Additionally, it includes activities to engage students in exploring concepts of beauty, language, and cultural practices.

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Lesson 1 - Anthropology PPT

The document introduces the field of anthropology, emphasizing its importance in understanding human cultures, customs, and changes over time. It outlines the four main fields of anthropology: Cultural, Linguistic, Physical/Biological, and Archaeology, each focusing on different aspects of human life and history. Additionally, it includes activities to engage students in exploring concepts of beauty, language, and cultural practices.

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Unit Introduction:

• Anthropology? What is it?


• Pop and Folk Culture
• ---- Project Planning ----
• Customs vs. Habits
• Race & Ethnicity / Cultural
appropriation
• Language Groups
• Early Humans and Human
Migrations
You have 5-10 minutes in your groups to complete the
Alien Meet and Greet Activity.
Think-Pair-Share

A broad field of social science that can be


Q: What is Anthropology?
summarized as the study of humankind.

Gives us a window into explaining and


Q: Why is Anthropology important? What understanding the continuous changes of
makes it a “science”? mankind. It uses procedures of scientific
method.
Anthropology allows us to identify groups
Q: How can we use Anthropology to learn with shared qualities or characteristics, thus
about different groups of people? allowing us to analyze the past or make
predictions for the future.
Four Fields of Anthropology

Q: Anthropology can be divided into four fields


– what do you think those four fields could be?
Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Anthropology is the comparative


study of cultures and cultural characteristics
around the world.

Q: Can you think of any examples of these


categorizations?

A:
• How and why humans live in groups, and
how they are organized
• How human economics has changed over
time
• The evolution and progression of religions
Cultural Anthropology

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Exercise 1: Write a list of characteristics


YOU would use to define
beauty/handsomeness in a person

Exercise 2: Write short response to the


following question? “Do you think that your
beliefs about beauty are shaped by your
culture?” Make reference to the class
discussion and images to the right
Linguistic Anthropology

The study of linguistics patterns, transitions,


and movement over time.

Q: Why might this be different from cultural


geography?

A: It is a BIGGER field: Language often has rules


and structure that can be more quantifiably
analyzed (unlike cultural traditions)
Physical / Biological Anthropology
Physical / Biological Anthropology focuses on physical and biological changes to humans through
our past and present.

Q: Can you think of any examples?

A: Skin colour / height / body type

Q: What might cause these things to be


different?

A: Geography, diet, etc.

Q: In Australia, it has been observed that


coastal aboriginal peoples are on average
taller and leaner than people found in the
interior of the continent…WHY?

A: Diet: Fish vs. red meat


Archaeology
Archaeology is the study of human history and
prehistory through the excavation of sites and the
analysis of artefacts and other physical remains

Q: What can this information tell us?

A:
• How these people lived.
• How tools have been modified and or
spread.
Anthropology Q: Identify the field of anthropology each picture is depicting

Cultural Anthropology Archaeology Linguistic Anthropology Physical Anthropology

The study of cultures Archaeology is the


and societies of human study of human history The study of language, Also called the
beings and their very and prehistory especially how biological anthropology,
recent past. Traditional language is structured, physical anthropology is
through the excavation
cultural anthropologists evolution of language,
of sites and the the study of human
study living cultures and and the social and evolution and variation,
present their analysis of artefacts cultural contexts for
and other physical both past and current.
observations in language
ethnography. remains
Who are the Nacirema?

Class Work - Activity:

Individual: Read and annotate the reading


titled “Body Ritual of the Nacirema” by Horace
Minor.

In groups of 3: Answer the questions provided


on the worksheet

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