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Anthropology 010:
General Anthropology
Spring 2006
MWF 1:00-1:50 pm
Peabody Hall, room 311
Instructor: Marsha Michie
Office: 303B Alumni Hall
Office Hours: Mondays, 2-4 pm and by appointment
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| Anthropology
is a comparative, holistic
discipline that seeks to understand humans in the broadest sense by
studying
their geographical and chronological diversity. |
Huh? What does that mean?
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point here is
that human beings have a lot of aspects: they are biological animals,
they
are speakers and listeners, they create social groups, and they exert
power
over one another. In order to understand humans, we have to look at all
these things and the ways they are interrelated - across both
space
and time. |
| Anthropology
10:
General Anthropology is an introduction to the five subdisciplines of
anthropology
(cultural, biological/physical, linguistic, and applied anthropology,
and
archaeology) that acquaints students not only with these individual
subject
areas and methods, but also with the connections between them. There
are
many different ways to do anthropology, but they share a common
interest
in understanding ourselves - human beings. |
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