Hello and Welcome to General Anthropology
I will be your instructor.
My name is Justin Williams.
I hope you will enjoy this online course in
General Anthropology and this is just a quick
video to introduce myself to you and to quickly
talk about the kinds of things that we will
learn in this class.
So this is me.
Currently in this image I am visiting Ireland.
I want to make it clear that you refer to
me as Justin, not Mr. Williams, that is my
father, or Dr. Williams, though I technically
do have my Ph.D. I am pretty easy going and
I am here to help you.
There will be lots of activities and from
time to time you may need to email me or I
may comment on a discussion board post that
you make.
This way you guys know what Iook like and
you know what to call me.
Anthropology is a really broad science.
Technically it means people-ology so we can
study a lot of different things.
To help us do that.
We've divided our studies into four different
types.
Those types are cultural anthropology, biological
anthropology, sometimes this one is called
physical or evolutionary anthropology, linguistic
anthropology, and archaeology.
We are going to talk quite a bit about the
methods and kind of things that these different
anthropologists learn about.
But for now what I want you to think about
is later in the semester I will have you guess
which one of these types of anthropology I
focus in.
Some people tell me that it is very obvious,
while others insist that I seem like a different
kind of anthropologist than I am.
On the right is the cover to the textbook
we will be using in this class.
I put this cover here because it has a lot
of different images that show off different
types of anthropology.
So take a look at this and try to figure out
which of the images go with each different
type of anthropology.
I hope you enjoyed this very short introduction
to the class.
Please let me know if have any questions or
need uhh help with the class so far.
Thanks!
