DIGITAL BOOKLET ANTRHOPOLOGY (SSF1173)

- SEXUALITY -

Sexual feelings, thoughts, attractions, and behaviours toward other people are
all aspects of sexuality. Other people can be physically, sexually, or emotionally
appealing to you, and all of that is a part of your sexuality. Sexuality is a
diverse and personal experience that is an important part of who you are.

Ø Heterosexual - The majority of people are drawn to the opposite sex – boys
who like girls and women who like men. These individuals are heterosexual,
or'straight.'

Ø Homosexual - The term 'lesbian' refers to people who identify as female and
are attracted to people of the same gender. The most common term for
people who identify as men and are same-sex attracted is 'gay.'

Ø Bisexual - attracted to both men and women

Ø Asexual - someone who does not experience, or experiences very little,
sexual attraction.

LU 12 & LU 13: Applied Biological
Anthropology anthropologists
Cultural
Applied anthropologists
anthropology

Applied
archeology

The use of - APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY -
anthropological
approaches and knowledge q Medical anthropology studies "human health and
to influence human disease, health care systems, and biocultural
behaviour or encourage adaptation".
change (including
economic development) in It is a subfield of social and cultural anthropology that
the living patterns of investigates how culture and society are organised around
various cultural groups is or influenced by health, health care, and related issues.
known as applied
anthropology. q Forensic anthropology, application of physical
anthropology to legal cases, usually with a focus on
Physical anthropology is the human skeleton. Forensic anthropology uses the
the branch of techniques of physical anthropology to analyze skeletal,
anthropology concerned badly decomposed, or otherwise unidentified human
with human physical remains to solve crimes.
characteristics.
q Urban anthropology is the study of cultural systems
and identities in cities as well as the various political,
social, economic, and cultural forces that shape urban
forms and processes.

- APPLIED ARCHEOLOGY -

Ø Applied archaeology occurs when the information
gleaned from a particular dig site could be used to
aid modern society.

Ø Applied archaeology are usually interested in ancient
technologies related to architecture and agriculture.

Ø Nonacademic clients include governments,
development agencies, non-governmental organisations,
tribal and ethnic associations, interaction groups,
business and social service organisations, and
educational institutions.

- BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS -

Biological anthropology ü The study of past human cultures through
investigates human and the examination of human remains recovered
nonhuman primate biological in an archaeological context is known as
evolution and variation by bioarchaeology.
studying biology (especially
the skeleton), evolutionary ü The study of the evolutionary processes
theory, inheritance, the fossil that resulted in the diversity of life on
record, and living primates. Earth, beginning with a single common
ancestor, is known as evolutionary biology.
It looks at interrelationships
between behavior, ecology, ü Human biology is an interdisciplinary field of
and biology. biology, biological anthropology, nutrition
and medicine, which concerns international,
population-level perspectives on health,
evolution, anatomy, physiology, molecular
biology, neuroscience, and genetics.

- CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS -

Ø It is the study of Ø Cultural anthropologists study
cultures around the culture using anthropological
world. It is one of four theories and methods. Identity,
subfields of the academic religion, kinship, art, race,
discipline of anthropology. gender, class, immigration,
While anthropology is the diaspora, sexuality, globalization,
study of human diversity, social movements, and many
cultural anthropology other topics are studied.
focuses on cultural
systems, beliefs, Ø Cultural anthropologists,
practices, and expressions. regardless of their specific field
of study, concentrate on
patterns and systems of belief,
social organs, and social
organizations.

LU 14: Anthropology in Malaysia

Asia Development

Community Heritage

- ASIA -

The largest of the world's continents,

constituting nearly one third of the land

mass, lying entirely north of the equator

except for some Southeast Asian islands.

It is connected to Africa by the Isthmus

of Suez, and borders Europe (part of

the same land mass) along the Ural British and Australian anthropology have
Mountains and across the Caspian Sea. long dominated in Malaysia. Malaysia and

Britain have a close relationship, which is

linked to anthropologists such as Firth,

Swift, Husin, Ali, Shasul, and A.B.

Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia all have

formal anthropology institution structures.

- COMMUNITY -

A community is a social unit (a group of living
things) with commonality such as norms,
religion, values, customs, or identity.

Community’ is to be characterized in terms of:
(i) common interests between people.
(ii) a common ecology and locality

(iii) a common social system or structure. Durable relationships that go beyond immediate

genealogical ties define a sense of community, which
is important to their identity, practise, and roles
in social institutions like family, home, work,
government, society, or humanity at large. While
communities are typically small in comparison to
personal social ties, the term "community" can also
refer to large group affiliations such as national
communities, international communities, and virtual
communities

- DEVELOPMENT -

q The process in which someone or
something grows or changes and
becomes more advanced: healthy
growth and development (Cambridge
Dictionary, 2021)

Economic development in Borneo is
critical to poverty reduction. Local
communities, however, suffer when major
corporations clear rainforests and
disregard traditional land rights. And as
rainforests are destroyed for plantations,
Borneo's rich wildlife diversity is under
threat.

- HERITAGE -

Ø Heritage is a person’s unique,
inherited sense of family identity: the
values, traditions, culture, and
artifacts handed down by previous
generations.

Anthropology of Heritage focuses on the
management of heritage and cultural
resources and the identification and study
of both material and intangible cultural
resources as they relate to our ability to
understand the relationships between the
past and the present.

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