ANT 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Culture Shock, Participant Observation, Adobe Creative Suite
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Culture is comprised of many actors with varying views. Culture is constantly changing, always in flux: therefore, culture is never going to achieve an endgame, progression cannot be compared as nobody is closer to an ultimate apex. Concepts of traditional culture vs. modern culture: tradition. Assumes an unwillingness or inability to change. An inherent inferiority exists in asia, africa, and latin america. Society can change, solutions can be achieved in other ways. It is the duty of the united states, canada, and europe to save the world. Anthropology emerged as a formal discipline during the height of colonialism when. European anthropologists focused on the study of traditional people and cultures: remember: traditional is problematic. Western science: an objective reality, we can only falsify things, never completely prove, empirical observations. How is research related to theory: data resulting from research provides anthropologists with material needed to produce a comprehensive ethnography, theory drives further research which supports theory, etc etc.
