ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Linguistic Description, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Appropriation
2 Nov 2017
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Living/interacting with people for a year or more (cultural or linguistic: interest in prehistory. Anthropologists have the ability to not only study present day cultures but prehistoric peoples as well: commitment to holism. A) interdisciplinary perspective owning together with other specialists to get more. B) exploring all integrated aspects of society. 4 sub elds of anthro: physical (biological) anthro, archaeology, cultural, linguistics, *applied anthro. Cultural anthropology: the study of contemporary cultures and societies, culture is de ned as transmitted, learned, behaviour, ethnography- a description of an aspect of culture within a society. Applied anthropology: the use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a speci c client. Holistic perspective- a fundamental principle of anthropology; the various parts of human culture and biology must be viewed in the broadest possible context in order to understand their interconnections and interdependence. Ethnocentrism- the belief that the ways of ones own culture are the only proper ones.
