The scientific study of human beings and their closest relatives, both living and extinct, in broadcast sense possible. It focus in themeans to be human, both as a member of the animal kingdom and as a species distinct from others. 

it tracks

1) Humans in their diveristy through time

2) Takes account of every facect of human culture

3) Investigates humans closest relatives in the animal world - apes and momkeys, too see similarties and diffrences

4) Describes and compares the language of the world to understand their origins and development.

5) Assess the physical, technological, and artistic things people make... when, where, and how they lived, they behave in certain ways.  

1) Physical and Biological Anthropology 

2) Archaeology

3) Lingustic Anthropology 

4) Cultural Anthropology 

Cultural Anthropology 

also known as 

Social Anthropology 

Study of customs and instiution. Are ways universal or how are they differnet from each other. 

Example: Shared Behaviors and ideas that help organize themselves: 

- Acquire Food 

- Clothing and Shelter

- The way people think 

Anthropology is a Greek word. 

Anthropos: Humanity 

Logos: the study of, reason, logic, word or speech. 

Refers to a group of people who establish boundries that distinguish them from other groups of peopl. These boudaries are defined by: 

1) Common Language or dialect 

2) Shared sense of being, a common origin or past 

3) A comon belief system 

4) A common culture 

to members of society, culture is a set of shared ways of behaving and thinking that people learn from those around them. 

1) They are single species

2) They can be understood in terms of shared biology, distinctive origins, a penchant for language, and bothe cultural and differentiation and similarity. 

3) Humans living in distinct groups, or societies, differ mainly in terms of culture and language, not biology

4) Culture develops faster than humans evolve in nature

1) To document and record speech, meaning, and sound patterns in unwrutten, un described languages. 

2) To examine the difference between rules of grammer in a language and how poeple actually speak. 

3) To assess how speakers of a native language acquire competence in the language and use it to become successful in life. 

4) To evaluate how languages are influenced by other languages, in contact situations involving face-to-face communication as well as various kinds of media, including radio, TV, and the internet. 

5) To examine the realtion of language of culture, such as how a language reflects prevailing attitudes and customs. 

6) To understand how and why ways of speaking change in time. 

1) Social Customs: observable activites, things that people do. (example: riding a train, brushing teeth.) 

2) Symbols: Signs that represent something. (example: The American Flag symbolizes the United States of America). 

3) Moral Norms: Morality, on waht people should and shouldn't do. 

4) Insitution: Regulate these other areas. 

These  all change over tiem, culture is a moving target that is constently changing. 

Everyone goes through the same oath, the same line. All destine to reach the same point. 

Example

Tribal People -------------------------> Sophisticated Europeans

this is seen as very ENTHOCENTRIC 

Race = culture

Scientifically spaking, race in NONEXISTENT 

Etic Perspective

Subsistence Stratehies

(Adaptive Strategies) 

1) Descent

2) Marriage