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AS A SCIENCE

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Etymological Definition of ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropos

Logos

Anthropology

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humanAnthropos

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Study of human

Anthropology

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A comparative and holistic discipline of

infinite curiosity about human beings in

all periods.

ANTHROPOLOGY

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THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL

PERSPECTIVE

“To make the strange familiar, and the familiar

strange”

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FOUR FIELDS OF ANTHROPOLOGY

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Anthropological Subfield

Human Characteristic

ArcheologyHuman shape their material

environment. Physical/Biological Anthropology

Humans differ in their physical form.

Linguistic Anthropology

Humans have a unique

communication system. Anthropologica

l SubfieldHumans at according to learned knowledge

systems.

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ARCHEOLOGYStudies the ways humans manipulate their material environment

Examines material environment of past societies for clues about their lives

Uses Physical and Cultural remains

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Physical Anthropologyo The comparative study of all aspects of human biology, fossil hominids, and contemporary human variation

o Examines the ways humans are biologically similar to and different from other animalsPrimatologyHuman Evolution

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Primatology, the comparative study of nonhuman primate anatomy and behavior

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Linguistic Anthropology

The comparative study of spoken language and its relationship to culture

How humans use language to communicate

The spread and transformation of language

Language acquisitionLanguage revitalization

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Cultural AnthropologyThe comparative study of culture

and of culturesDescribes and analyzes the beliefs

people have about their social and material worlds, and the ways these affect human action

Social organization, economics, technology, political organization, marriage, family life.

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Anthropological Views of Education

1.Education is a social institution2.Schooling is only part of education.3.Education is a lifelong process.4.Schools must be seen as the arena for

class-cultural conflict  and other transactions between representatives of different cultural systems.

5.School as a social institution of education cannot be understood if students are viewed as its only output and education as its only function.

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6. Education is an agent of cultural transmission.

7.Education and school must became the objects of studies.

8.Education is an agent of social and cultural change.

9.School should be regarded as "miniature community and embryonic" where children would learn through daily classroom activity how to participate effectively  and constructively in society's activities. (Dewey)

10.School is a place where society's problems are presented, studied and analyzed. (Child)

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11.The purpose of education is to develop in citizen's awareness and skills necessary for them to take charge of and improve their own social and economic conditions. (Freire)

12.When the school introduces and trains each child of society into membership with a little community, saturating him with the spirit of services and providing him with the instrument of effective self - direction, we shall have the deepest and best guarantee of a longer society which is worthy, lively and harmonious (Dewey)

13.Schools should involve the students in social action (Man and Molinar)

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14.Education is tasked to prepare the individual for a progressive rebuilding of the social order to which we belongs.

15.To regard education as an agent of social and cultural change, the school and its education  program takes a dynamic role.

16.The school serves as a boundary - breaking between social classes.

17.Education is an agent of socialization process.

18.Education is an agent of modernization.

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IMPLICATIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY

1. reduces ethnocentrism by instilling appreciation of other cultures

2. contributes to our understanding of human beings

3. helps to avoid misunderstandings between peoples

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