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1 Intro to Anthropology HSP3M Ms. Gluskin

2 Questions Why do humans have such different ways of living and thinking? What makes you different from and similar to other individuals and groups both in Canada and around the world? York University Department of Anthropology. (2010). An anthropologist asks. Retrieved Feb. 3, 2011 from http://www.yorku.ca/laps/anth/program.html

3 Why are we not becoming all the same in our global world due to new technologies, new media and more powerful multinational corporations? Why do social inequality, poverty, racism, and violence continue to occur around the world, including here in Canada? York University Department of Anthropology. (2010). An anthropologist asks. Retrieved Feb. 3, 2011 from http://www.yorku.ca/laps/anth/program.htmlhttp://www.yorku.ca/laps/anth/program.html

4 The Biggest Circle Anthropology SP

5 Broad Areas of Study University of Waterloo. (n.d.). Waterloo Arts: Anthropology. Retrieved Feb. 3, 2011 from http://anthropology.uwaterloo.ca/ Anthropology PhysicalSocial/Cultural

6 Cultural and Physical McGill University. (2011). Arts – Anthropology. Retrieved Feb. 3, 2011 from http://www.mcgill.ca/anthropology/http://www.mcgill.ca/anthropology/ “No other discipline has the same capacity to look at the world "from the ground up" -- from the point of view of ordinary people living in developing countries, or of ethnic minorities living in our own society.”

7 University of Toronto. (2011). Welcome to the department of anthropology. Retrieved Feb. 3, 2011 from http://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/ “Anthropology is concerned with human diversity and commonality over time and across geographical space. It is the broadest of the social sciences, stretching from the life sciences to the humanities.”

8 Methods of Study

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10 McMaster University. (2011). Department of Anthropology. Retrieved Feb. 3, 2011 from http://www.anthropology.mcmaster.ca/

11 A Definition “Anthropology is the scientific study of the human condition, an exploration of the biological, linguistic, social, material, and cultural aspects of life in the past, present, and future. Of the many disciplines that study our species, Homo sapiens, only anthropology seeks to understand the whole panorama—in geographic space and evolutionary time—of human existence.” University of Alberta. (2011). Department of Anthropology. Retrieved Feb. 3, 2011 from http://www.anthropology.ualberta.ca/

12 Visit… UBC Museum of Anthropology University of British Columbia. (2010). Museum of Anthropology. Retrieved Feb. 3, 2011 from http://www.moa.ubc.ca/


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