ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Participant Observation
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Participant observation deep hanging out (next week) A belief that one"s own culture is superior to that of others. An idea that you will judge others and the way they live based on your values, beliefs, experience, based on how you live. Eliminating bias is difficult because we are all members of a group, and therefore not a part of other groups. As anthropologists, we are expected observe, study, pay attention, understand other cultures by understanding their history. Study others with their history, experiences and values in mind without judgement. Offering moral guidance and some methodological orientation. Culture is a complex whole it is a collection of things that includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, customer, habits. Culture is everything people have, think, and do. Associated with a group of people within society. Characteristics of culture: learned, shared within a group, based on symbols. Something that stands for something else: adaptive to environments. Integrated within selves wholes (holistic nature) internal.
