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- Sep 2023
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ethnobotany examines how people in different cultures categorize and use plants for food, shelter, tools, transportation, art, and religion.
How everyday items interact with different societies internationally
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the way that all elements of human life interrelate to form distinctive cultures: holism.
Potential vocab word and definition that seems helpful to know
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Anthropologists study every possible realm of human experience, thought, activity, and organization. Human as we are, we can only engage in social and natural worlds through our human minds and human bodies. Even engagement with nonhuman realms such as astronomy and botany is conditioned by our human senses and human cognition and thus varies across different societies and different time periods.
I thought this was a good rundown of what the class will be about. This made the definition more focused in my mind.
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Anthropology aims to overcome bias by examining cultures as complex, integrated products of specific environmental and historical conditions
I interpreted this definition as using history and culture to understand the human race as a whole.
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