ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Relativism, Cultural Survival, Ethnography
10 Dec 2020
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Ethnography: detailed description of a living culture, based on personal observation. Culture writing, presented in a full book. Originally started writing about exotic cultures that were not euro/na village studies and took a holistic approach, combining studies and info. Ethnology: studying a particular topic in more than one culture using ethnographic material. Cross-cultural analysis to examine similarities and differences and their causes between cultures. Ethnography = gives rich, culture specific insight. Ethnology: further than individual cases to look at wider patters and raises new questions/research. Ethnocentrism: judging other cultures by the standards of ones won culture versus the standards of that particular culture. Has caused people to try and change other people/cultures in the world through religious missionaries and secular colonial domination european assimilation to first nations. Cultural relativism: each culture must be understood in terms of those values and beliefs and not judged by standards of another culture.
