Definition & Scopes of Anthropology Presented to RAR Presented by Arafat Islam 111-12-0106 Sitangshu Adhikary 111-12-0109 Farhana Akter 111-12-0113 Ruhe Bente Amin 111-12-0122 Ashraful Huda 111-12-0123 Masudul Islam 111-12-0129 2012 Contents Sl. NO. | Topic Name | Page No. | 1. | Definition of Anthropology | 03-03 | 2. | Key concepts of Anthropology | 04-04 | 3. | Scopes of Anthropology | 05-05 | 4. | Fields of Anthropology | 06-07 | Definition
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theories that posit the Austronesians as the origin of the Philippine population. Among the leading proponents of these ideas are Australian National University professor Peter Bellwood‚ American anthropologist and the most senior practitioner of archaeology in Southeast Asia Wilhelm Solheim II‚ and Filipino anthropologist Zeus Salazar. Their viewpoints are to be separately presented here. Bellwood’s Austronesian Diffusion Theory/ Out-of-Taiwan (OOT) Hypothesis/ Mainland Origin Hypothesis Rather
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“Fountain of Youth” During his twilight years‚ American author Mark Twain noted that "life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18." Twain’s quip was only one of many complaints about aging that have been recorded for as long as humans have dreaded the downside of a long life. The ancient Greek poet Homer called old age "loathsome‚" and William Shakespeare termed it "hideous winter." So it’s not hard to understand why there have always been
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Development. American Anthropologist 63(3): 483-497 Comaroff‚ J Fogelin‚ L. 2007. The Archaeology of Religious Ritual. Annual Review of Anthropology. 36: 55-71 Gable‚ E Graham‚ E. 1998. Mission Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 17: 25-62 Hanks‚ W Insoll‚ T. 2004. Archaeology‚ Ritual‚ Religion. London: Routledge Keegan‚ T Lane‚ P. 2001. The archaeology of Christianity in global perspective in Insoll‚ T. (ed) Archaeology of World Religion. London‚ Routledge‚ pp. 148-8. Porter‚ A. 2004. Religion versus
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many other fields of enquiry in the social‚ physical and medical sciences‚ philosophy‚ and the arts and humanities. Our understanding of language origins‚ structure and use changes constantly with new discoveries in neuroscience‚ animal behaviour‚ archaeology and palaeontology‚ sociology‚ and psychology‚ and new industrial‚ medical and forensic applications of linguistic theory and methods are emerging year on year. What is language and linguistics? It has been said that language is the very essence
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HEINRICH SCHLIEMANN AND THE DISCOVERY OF TROY “So fight by the ships‚ all together. And that comrade Who meets his death and destiny‚ speared or stabbed‚ Let him die! He dies fighting for the fatherland- No dishonor there! He’ll leave behind him wife and sons unscathed‚ His house and estate unharmed- once these Argives Sail for home‚ the fatherland they love.” –The Iliad Book 15 lines 574-580‚ by Homer Today‚ on the plains of Western Anatolia lies the site of one of the most well
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“...It is important to make sure that our reading of the Scriptures is based on the latest advances and methods. The principal direction biblical scholars have taken in the last one hundred [and] fifty years has been the development of what is known as the historical critical approach” (Ceresko‚ 17). In Anthony Ceresko’s “Introduction to the Old Testament: A Liberation Perspective”‚ Ceresko examines and explores Scripture through the hermeneutic of suspicion and the hermeneutical privilege of the
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origins and dispersals of ancient agricultural communities with respect to a variety of fields of study to establish a historical interpretation from a comparative perspective. Although Bellwood admits to having training only in the discipline of archaeology‚ the book also considers the areas of comparative linguistics and biological anthropology. Through this collaboration of data from different areas of study‚ the book is framed around a multidisciplinary hypothesis‚ which Bellwood refers to as the
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Archaeology 103 12/10/12 The Origins of Agriculture As the last Ice Age came to an end‚ the environment presented its self in a new manner. The temperature was becoming warmer‚ promoting more plant life‚ resulting in a better quality of life. Many scholars argue why farming was invented. Palaeopathological studies‚ or studies of diseases in ancient man and fossil animals‚ have shown that in populations where cereal farming was practiced the health had diminished. Also because of intensive cereal
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‘Excavated human remains should always be reburied’. How far do you agree? The topic of human remains has been argued over for many years and has resulted in multiple changes to the laws of reburial in the past sixty years‚ but now the laws are that archaeologists can have up to 3 years to research the remains until they should be reburied unless they need to extend their research. Archaeologists have always been fighting to stop reburial to have more time to research them or display them in museums
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