ANTH 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marcel Mauss, Social Anthropology, Nacirema

• School: University of Adelaide
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1105
• Professor: any

Document Summary

Lectures are available online via myuni however certain content presented during lectures is subject to copyright laws and cannot be recorded. In week 1 only monday tutorials will meet. In week 2 there is no lecture and only. Anthropologists study people and culture in the past, present and future. They look at human relationships, non-human relationships, human beliefs and practices. There are 4 types of anthropology and this course will focus on cultural anthropology. We will study all forms of culture and learn that there can be no one definition of culture. Most significantly we will examine the culture of our lives and note the cultural practices we engage in which we are not even aware of. Anthropology sheds light on many areas including: ritual and rites of passage, kinship and family, food and nutrition, human sexuality, social networks, religious belief. All of which can be studied further in future anthropology courses.