ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thick Description, Culture Shock, Cultural Relativism

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Introduction to social & cultural anthropology (ant 1101), Lecture 3: perceptions of ourselves and others". Ethnocentrism: if we only see the world as we are taught to see the world, then we are not learning (closed minded) Cultural relativism: trying to be empathetic, trying to understand why people do things a certain way (open minded) Noble savage : being overly enthusiastic, over romanticize which makes a biased opinion that anthropologists may only look at the good and not the bad and not indulge into what may be a problem (blinded: research. To avoid culture-bound theories: why do we see this type of diversity, why do people act the way we do. We can look at our own society and see this but we have to go to other cultures and analyze how they act. Ethnohistory (looking at historical events that might not be considered mainstream history- events that happened among marginalized groups.

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