ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Predicable, Ethnocentrism, Noble Savage
24 Sep 2016
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Emergence of anthropology as a distinct discipline (19th) Colonialism: dominant society politically controls another territory for purpose of settling and economic exploitation. Societies have been doing this for thousands of years not recent, e. g. incan empire. However from the 17th to the 19th cent, new technologies (boats, communication) facilitated a vast european expansion (industrial revolution), needed resources to feed it). This means that they come into contact with people who are very different from them, close contact with people from other societies. Europeans try to understand how and why cultural practices differ; and it wasn"t in the aim of subjugating them further. Society: independent group of people who live in the same region, can communicate and interact with one another. Social structure: relationships among groups within a society that bind it together. Culture: the ideals, values and beliefs that people share to interpret experience and generate behaviour.
