ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cultural Relativism, Estrous Cycle, Comparative Anatomy
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7 key concepts: holism: adopting widest perspective possible, includes everything as a whole, fieldwork: generates primary data to build theories off of. They believed not to be born with it: scientific/nomothetic anthropology: argues that anthropology should be regarded as scientific, looking at smaller ideas with statistical evidence. Interpretive/reflexive anthropology: argues that science is conducted/prosecuted in political context and that it becomes conditioned by politics and the economy. Susceptible to political and/or economical pressures: homosexuality was characterized as a disease which was then changed through politics, corrected as no longer being a disease, scientific perspective: looks at the behaviour, what is observable and describable. No longer generating more data, but explaining the data. How do you account and classify it: classification and comparison, descent systems and family organizations, patrilineal (vienna/freud) vs. matrilineal (trobriand. Freud"s theory was culturally specific according to malinowski.
