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What is Anthropology?
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The study of human kind everywhere, through time.
It seeks to produce reliable knowledge about people and their behavior. Things that make them different and things that make them similar. |
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What do biological anthropologists do?
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they trace the evolutionary development of humans as biological organisms and look at biological variations withing the species past and present.
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What are anthropologists concerned with?
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Explaining observed phenomena.
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What contributed to slow growth of anthropology as a science?
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Europeans because they only gradually came to recognize that beneath all the differences, they shared a basic humanity with people everywhere.
Those that did not share fundamental cultural values as Europeans were labeled "salvage" or barbarian. |
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In which century showed growing interest in human diversity and ways to explain things in the terms of natural laws??
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18th century
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Three main influences are evident in the development of Canadian anthropology
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1. Museums
2; Academic departments 3. Applied research |
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This institution played a major role in direction of early Canadian anthropology.
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National Museum of Canada in Ottawa.
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Canadian anthropology owes its development and continued growth to: (individuals)
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Edward Sapir (National Museum of Canada now Museum of Civilization)
Marius Barbeau David Boyle Diamond Jenness |
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These scholars were early advocates for aboriginal rights to religious and cultural freedom.
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Edward Sapir
Marius Barbeau David Boyle Diamond Jenness |
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In the mid___00s no professional archeologists worked in the United States or Canada, but by early ___00s in Europe archeology as a profession was well on its way.
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1800s
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In early 1_____ geological principles had been educated, and artifacts found in certain layers for the first time that were deemed to be great antiquity. Charles Darwin published this On the Origin of the Species in 18__.
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1830, 1859
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In 1846 the founding of this Institution the the USA had a profound impact on North American archeology.
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Smithsonian Institution
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Canadian Institute, founded in 18___ in Toronto was intended to be Canada's Smithsonian
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1849
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Individual that had profound impact on Canadian archeology and what would become the field of biological or physical anthropology. Arrived in Toronto from Scotland in 1853.
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Daniel Wilson
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Geological Survey of Canada was formed in _____.
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1911
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