ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Palliative Care, Generation Gap, Heterosexuality
10 Dec 2017
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The systematic study of humankind in all times and places. So, anthropology is not just about the study of far away peoples and places. Present day cultures in our own society as well as faraway places. This may have them study different languages, religions, be exposed to completely different forms of politics in other cultures. Another misconception: that anthropologists is the study of the exotics or primitive cultures. That is one that is really promoted in our pop culture. That label of exotic or primitive people is a racist term because when we label other cultures as e(cid:454)oti(cid:272) or pri(cid:373)iti(cid:448)e (cid:455)ou"re sa(cid:455)i(cid:374)g the(cid:455) are less de(cid:448)eloped, less evolved, lesser than you. You are making a moral judgement on that particular culture. Anthropologist study people close to them or in far away places. To understand how poverty and racism shape their choice to sell crack and join gangs. Anthropologist phillpe bourgoise: field work among gangs in east harlem, ny.
