Geographers toolkit - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Notes on the first chapter of the course. Geographer's toolkit

APY1501 Exam Pack. Anthropology In A Diverse World. Anthropology’s has “four fields” of study (biological/physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistic and sociocultural anthropology) that is closely related. Anthropologists from all four fields study notions of the body – each in a different context: 1. Sociocultural anthropologists, for example, examine how culture affects societal and individual bodily ideas, ideals and practices. They provide ethnographic records of how variou...

APY1501 STUDY NOTES. Anthropology In A Diverse World. WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY? Anthropology Produces information on people and what they have in common.  Studies humankind everywhere, both past and present  Studies where people live, the organisation and the general features of people’s languages. Initially what distinguished anthropology from sociology was that Anthropology studied 'preliterate' people. Anthropology as an independent discipline is distinguished from other disciplin...

APY1501 Exam Pack. Anthropology In A Diverse World. Sociocultural anthropologists focus on the ___. 1. relation between language and the other aspects of the life of a society. 2. lifestyles of the rich diversity of societies as they are found worldwide. 3. influence of biological and hereditary characteristics on behaviour of members of a society. 4. material remains of societies which are collected during excavation of sites where people once lived. Answer: The correct answer is 2 Refer...