ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTHROPOLOGY
 ANTHROPOLOGY
• Is the scientific study of origins of
humans, how we have changed over
the years, and how we relate to each
other both within our own culture and
with people from other culture.
• Anthropology is Arts and Science
The term originates from two
words in Greek :
• Anthropos meaning “man” as in “human
being”
• Logos meaning “study”
FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
 FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
1. BIOLOGICAL/ PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
 FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
1. BIOLOGICAL/ PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY

2. ARCHAEOLOGY
 FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
1. BIOLOGICAL/ PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY

2. ARCHAEOLOGY

3. LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
 FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
1. BIOLOGICAL/ PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY

2. ARCHAEOLOGY

3. LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

4. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
BIOLOGICAL/PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
 BIOLOGICAL/PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
• A field that is engaged in
understanding human and their nature
as an animal species.
 BIOLOGICAL/PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
• A field that is engaged in
understanding human and their nature
as an animal species.

• It examines human variation, evolution

and physical characteristics.
ARCHAEOLOGY
 ARCHAEOLOGY
• A branch of anthropology that
attempts to reconstruct the cultures
of past civilizations by dealing with
fossils and artifacts.
FOSSILS – are biological remains of
plants, animals and humans.

ARTIFACTS – manmade remains such as

clothing and tools.
LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
• It examines the relationship between
language and culture.

3 Sub – fields
1. Historical Linguistic Traces
2. Descriptive Linguistic Traces
3. Social Linguistic
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
• Studies the life ways and traditions
of human groups which may include
their belief system, economic
activities, material culture and even
political system
Ethnography – Holistic study
Ethnology – Cross cultural comparison.
 KEY CONCEPTS IN
ANTHROPOLOGY
Evolutionism – First recognized in
natural science through the works of
Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel,
Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles
Lyrell.
The perspective of Darwin was later
adapted by Socila Scientist in
understanding human society through
the theory of Unilineal Evolution.
Cultural Relativism – Valuable mental
tool used by most anthropologist
as they study about culture.

It promotes value free analysis of

other cultures as they study and
understand the society.
Culture – The key elements of study in
the field of anthropology.
Totality of the life ways of a group of
people.
*Traditions
*Beliefs
*Norms
*Mores
 RESEARCH METHODS IN
ANTHROPOLOGY
• anthropology, ethnography and the making of
ethnographic methods;
• ethnographic fieldwork, participant-observation and the
‘tacit dimension’;
• interviewing, biography and life histories;
• visual and auditory methods in anthropological research;
• multi-sited research and the changing ethnographic
‘field’;
• research ethics;
• research design and proposal writing;
• reflexivity, home and away;
• ethnographic analysis – field notes, transcription,
coding.