Anthropology in Vernacular Architecture
Anthropology in Vernacular Architecture
Anthropology in Vernacular Architecture
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VERNACULAR
ARCHITECTURE
ANTHROPOLOGY
The study of humans, past and present.
It helps us in understanding the full sweep and
complexity of cultures across all of human
history.
Anthropology draws and builds upon knowledge
from the social and biological sciences as well as
the humanities and physical sciences.
A central concern of anthropology is the
application of knowledge to the solution of human
problems.
SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY:
Sociocultural anthropology examine social patterns and practices
across cultures, with a special interest in how people live in particular
places and how they organize, govern, and create meaning.
A hallmark of sociocultural anthropology is its concern with similarities
and differences, both within and among societies, and its attention to
race, sexuality, class, gender, and nationality
Research in sociocultural anthropology is distinguished by its emphasis
on participant observation, which involves placing oneself in the
research context for extended periods of time to gain a first-hand
sense of how local knowledge is put to work in grappling with practical
problems of everyday life and with basic philosophical problems of
knowledge, truth, power, and justice.
Topics of concern to sociocultural anthropology include such areas as
health, work, ecology and environment, education, agriculture and
development, and social change.
BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLGY :
Biological anthropology seek to understand how humans adapt
to diverse environments, how biological and cultural processes work
together to shape growth, development and behaviour, and what
causes disease and early death.
In addition, they are interested in human biological origins,
evolution and variation.
They give primary attention to investigating questions having to
do with evolutionary theory, our place in nature, adaptation and
human biological variation.
To understand these processes, biological anthropology study
the fossil record (pale anthropology), prehistoric people (bio
archaeology), and the biology (e.g., health, hormones, growth and
development) and genetics of living populations.
ARCHAEOLOGY :
Archaeology is the study of past peoples and cultures, from the
deepest prehistory to the recent past, through the analysis of
material remains, ranging from artefacts and evidence of past
environments to architecture and landscapes.
Material evidence, such as pottery, stone tools, animal bone, and
remains of structures, is examined , to address such topics as the
formation of social groupings, ideologies, subsistence patterns, and
interaction with the environment.
Like other areas of anthropology, archaeology is a comparative
discipline; it assumes basic human continuities over time and place,
but also recognizes that every society is the product of its own
particular history and that within every society there are
commonalities as well as variation.
Linguistic anthropology :
Linguistic anthropology is the comparative study of ways in
which language reflects and influences social life.
It explores the many ways in which language practices define
patterns of communication, formulate categories of social
identity and group membership, organize large-scale cultural
beliefs and ideologies, and, equip people with common cultural
representations of their natural and social worlds.
Linguistic anthropology shares with anthropology in general a
concern to understand power, inequality, and social change,
particularly as these are constructed and represented through
language and discourse.
Psychological anthropology:
Cognitive anthropology :
Cognitive anthropology seeks to explain patterns of
shared knowledge, cultural innovation, and transmission
over time and space using the methods and theories of
the cognitive sciences (especially experimental
psychology and evolutionary biology) often through
close collaboration with historians, archaeologists,
linguists and other specialists engaged in the
description and interpretation of cultural forms.
Cognitive anthropology is concerned with what people
from different groups know and how that implicit
knowledge changes the way people perceive and relate
to the world around them.
Ecological anthropology:
Environmental
anthropology:
Historical
anthropology:
Evolutionary anthropology: