photo by Robert Puglla

Group activity

 

 

The ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

comparative, cross-cultural

holistic

past, present, future

in context -- through time and space

centers around adaptation

GENERAL ANTHROPOLOGY = FOUR FIELDS:

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

ARCHAEOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS

EACH HAS AN ACADEMIC & AN APPLIED DIMENSION

 

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

ETHNOGRAPHY

ETHNOLOGY

CULTURE AND PERSONALITY

 

ARCHAEOLOGY

CULTURE HISTORY

PALEOANTHROPOLOGY

 

ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS

SOCIOLINGUISTICS

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

 

BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

HUMAN EVOLUTION

HUMAN GENETICS

HUMAN PLASTICITY

PRIMATOLOGY

PALEOANTHROPOLOGY

APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

FIELD METHODS:

PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION

GENEAOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY

INTERVIEWS

LIFE HISTORIES

LONGITUDINAL STUDIES

Field methods used by LEE in working with the SAN

EMIC & ETIC

REAL & IDEAL