ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vending Machine, Participant Observation, Ethnocentrism
18 Apr 2017
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When we study culture we are studying to create meaning---we are talking about the ideologies, social institutions, how we are etc. Unlike fish we are the source of our culture. Every choice we make occur in cultural conditions that determine effects. Cannibal tours ethnocentrism, contrast the differences between tourists and anthropologists. Marketers are resentful that tourists do not help them out. Tourists are more concerned about the physical environment then the people around them. Tourists are na ve about how dependent the marketers are on the tourist"s money- they seem to not appreciate the work and time that goes into the items for sale. History from the people that live there is still important and seen as value within society and still affects current events today. Children value songs that must have been brought from other countries or. Ethnocentric (judgment they make about one another"s cultures) examples:
