Exploring Anthropology

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The broad field of anthropology studies "all things human" in ways that stand apart from sociology, psychology, history, and other areas of the humanities and sciences. This course explores anthropologists, study of archaeology, culture, human biology, language and medicine to understand humans in general and in specific contexts. It dispels common myths and misconceptions (for instance, archaeologists like to excavate graves, humans evolved from monkeys, the field deals with primitive people, it is not scientific). The faculty of the Case Western Reserve University Anthropology Department and affiliated anthropologists talk briefly about their field or subfield, its big questions, and their research.