ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Anthropology, Primatology, Cultural Relativism
2 Jul 2016
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* the general rules for behaviour that everyone in a group agrees upon. * we, as humans are very similar in the ways in which we live. * study of human behaviour by looking at the material object people leave behind. * ed hedican how people adapted to life in different environments. * starts with the idea that we are animals. Interested in nutrition and illness/rates of illness and malnutrition. * how language shapes culture and vice versa. * wade davis (ubc) says that the central revelation of anthropology is that the social world doesn"t exist. * our social world is just one model of reality. * how human behaviour is shaped by culture. * ethnocentrism: the belief that one"s own culture is superior to that of another culture. * looking at the world through your own eyes and your own culture/experiences. * some say that being ethnocentric is a natural part of being in a group.
