Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to: - Define anthropology and globalization - Enumerate and describe the different branches of anthropology; and - Explain the importance of studying anthropology.

KWL
1. What do you know about anthropology? Culture? 2. What do you want to learn in this subject?

What is Anthropology?

Anthropology examines
human societies

cultures

communication past and present

Canada

India

New Guinea

China

What is anthropology?
Differences
Similarities

Biological and

Cultural

Human Populations

Brazil

Kenya

In light of rapid technological advancement, how would we appear 20 years from now?
South Yemen

New Guinea

Globalization
implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers.

What is anthropology?
Biological & Cultural Characteristics

Human Populations In all PERIODS

In all PARTS OF THE WORLD

What is anthropology?
Anthropology comes from

Greek words

anthropos man/human

logos/logia study

General Anthropology
1. Sociocultural / Cultural Anthropology 2. Archaeological 3. Biological 4. Linguistic Anthropology

1. Cultural Anthropology
human society and culture

- describes, analyzes, interprets and explains social and cultural similarities and differences

1. Cultural Anthropology
Ethnography provides an account of a particular community, society or culture. Ethnology examines, interprets, analyzes and compares the result of ethnography

2. Archaeology

reconstructs, describes and interprets the daily life and customs of people who lived in the past and to trace and explain cultural changes.

- material remains

3. Biological Anthropology
- The study of human biological variation in time and space

3. Biological Anthropology
5 Special Interests
1. Human evolution as revealed by the fossil record (paleoanthropology) 2. Human genetics 3. Human growth and development 4. Human biological plasticity 5. Biology, evolution, behavior and social life of monkeys, apes and other nonhuman primates

4. Anthropological Linguistics - changes that have taken place in language over time. - contemporary variations

Relevance of Anthropology
1. Help people to be more tolerant

2. Knowledge of past brings us both:

a. feeling of humility b. sense of accomplishment

THINK ABOUT THIS!!!

If one disturbs a woman in the bath, what body parts does she cover?

According to Helen Colton (1983)

Islamic woman covers her FACE
Prerevolutionary Chinese woman covers her FEET Sumatran woman covers her KNEES

According to Helen Colton (1983)

Laotian woman covers her BREASTS
Samoan woman covers her NAVEL
North American or European woman covers her BREASTS with one hand AREA with the other and her GENITAL ______________

LADIES, what body parts would you cover?

Group work
1. How can this subject help you in your field? 2. What do you appreciate the most in our culture?