ANT102H5 Lecture 5: Cultural anthropology
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Children"s mistakes are pointing to the arbitrariness of culture and language. E. g. saying the word dog doesn"t need an explanation b/c the idea behind it is: learnt, practiced through traditions and day-to-day experiences. Between people who are alike, yes: there is diversity everywhere though. Head hunters: how they experience emotions: rosaldo: Some civilizations are more developed than others: english are more civilized than the. Participant observation: participating in a culture as much as possible new perspective. Old anthropology (study of static cultures) wrong ! An attempt to make sense a culture, rituals of death, etc: attempt b/c it made cultures sound like a formula, but they are not. They related everything to order, but that"s not effective. Econography: writing about a group of people. See them as a complex group of people. Trying to understand the culture: cannot influence people or it won"t be objective observation.
