ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Relativism, Adam Kadmon, Ethnocentrism
14 Sep 2016
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What is anthropology: anthropos: humankind , systematic study of humankind (human culture), both in the past and in the present. Notes: culture is learned, behaviours and identities are not natural/biological and vary from culture to culture, ex. nationalism. Key terms: ethnocentrism: the erroneous idea that ones culture and its values are somehow right or superior to another cultures. Many people therefore judge another culture according to the standards of their own. Nazi germany: cultural relativism: an approach adopted and promoted by anthropologists, the opposite of ethnocentrism, understanding another society in its own terms. Four sub elds of anthropology: physical/biological archaeology, cultural, linguistics, applied. Cultural anthropology: study contemporary cultures and societies, methodology: participant observation, interviews, ethnography: description of an aspect of culture within a society, youtube video: doing anthropology. Archaeology: study of past societies and their cultures using material remains ex. tools, ceramics, sites, evidence of human occupation. Linguistic: study of the construction and use of language of human societies.
