ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism
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How an individual sees or reacts to situations. Ways of thinking based on tradition, but which can also change, both continuity and transformation. What is anthropology: study of humanity, many subields, anthropology is the holistic study of humans though time and space (in the past and present) There classical four subields include: biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology. , archaeology, and sociocultural anthropology. Sociocultural anthropology: the study of contemporary human life, with a focus on how diverse cultural communities and individuals make and share meaning. A ways of seeing the world and a tool for understanding. What is ethnography: participant observation/ieldwork, deep hanging out . The challenge of deining culture: codere: to cultivate. An early nominal deinition: that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society (1871) Anything people do within a set area: encounter culture. Canadian anthropologist richard lee interviewing a san hunter in the 1960s.
