• Professor: Dr. Deidre Rose
• Contact Information:
• Email:derose@uoguelph.ca
• Office MACK637
• Courelink site
• AGENDA:
• Introduce myself and my research.
• Definitions:
• Culture
• Cultural Relavitism
• Ethnocentrism
Discussion exercise (time permitting)
• What is Anthropology?
• Literally the study of humankind
• Divided into 4 sub-fields:
• Biological or Physical anthropology
• Archaeology
• Linguistics
• Social/Cultural Anthropology and all four subdisciplines ->
• Applied Anthropology
Social/Cultural Anthropology
• Contemporary or recent cultures
• Beginnings of the discipline saw the growth of “social” anthropology in Britain and the growth of
“cultural” anthropology in the United States
• Fieldwork is central to anthropology
• Ethnography, ethnology, ethnohistory