ANTHR110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Self-Denial, Ethnocentrism
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Bio-cultural organisms biological species made up of all sorts of different things, acknowledge the link between culture/biology. Holistic approach look at everything and see how it intersects to all aspects of life (eg religion, economics, etc. ) Cultural relativity & ethnocentrism relativity is that a species must be considered relative to their own life, whereas ethnocentrism is judging a species against the viewer"s reality. Cross cultural research & fieldwork you look at different group in their own setting and then comparing/contrasting aspects of culture/life. Human agency tied to the notion of your own ideas and bias; we have the potential to affect the world around us we are not passive beings , we are often restricted in our choices. Changes in culture, changes in social roles, constant rapid changes in gender constructs. Women were universally subordinated by men, causing discrimination or restrictions to arise. Most commonly man or woman one or the other.