ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grant Mccracken, Fallacy, Cultural Relativism
19 Apr 2016
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Logia: study of systematic study of humankind in all times and places. Interest in prehistory: interdisciplinary perspective to get a complete picture, exploring all integrated aspects of society of a culture (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) comparative. Physical/biological: all aspects of the biology and behavior of the human species, past and present. Using anthropology to solve real world problems: marketing and business, law, environments assessments. Studied chimp behavior in gombe park, tanzania. Accidental death, crime scene investigation, human rights investigation. Can make particular groups of people distinctive. Attributes meanings (sometimes unconsciously) to things and these meanings differ from society to society. Ethnocentrism: the tendency to judge the beliefs of one culture (cid:1) (cid:1) from your own perspective (cid:1) another group of people (cid:1) (cid:1) Ethnocentric fallacy: using your own cultural values to judge. Understanding another culture from its own perspective. Can be morally problematic: we do not want to condone horrific acts of violence, genocide, human suffering, inequality, torture, etc.
