ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Google Scholar, Cultural Anthropology, Informed Consent

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AB3
• Professor: ALL

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1ab3: ethnocentrism: the tendency to judge beliefs of one culture from your own perspective (e. g. religion and missionary activity). That their own values/ideas are right, that they are somehow better (racism). When jesuits came to canada and tried to convert i(cid:374)dige(cid:374)ous people (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they (cid:449)e(cid:396)e sa(cid:448)ages. Someone else: ethnocentric fallacy: using your own cultural values to judge another group of people. When you try to impose your values: cultural relativism: trying to understand another culture from their perspective; what anthropologists do. Trying to understand how a certain belief system connects with (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduality. Ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)e(cid:396), at ti(cid:373)es it (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e (cid:373)o(cid:396)ally p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)ati(cid:272); do(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to condone horrific acts. Trying to explore problems and solutions: virgin testing in turkey, patrilineal culture: any form of wealth passes on through the male side (you getting you(cid:396) fathe(cid:396)(cid:859)s (cid:374)a(cid:373)e, cannibalism the wari. Field work: a(cid:374) a(cid:374)th(cid:396)opologi(cid:272)al (cid:858)(cid:396)ite of passage(cid:859)