ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Paleontology, Cultural Relativism, Relativism
28 Nov 2013
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Basic biology will be covered make a note of that. The class focuses on: the classification of data, observation, reasoning and analyzing. Human biological and cultural evolutional development from a holistic perspective. Anthropology: the study of humans (places, times, everything). This definition is not based on technique but rather on our goal, the focus we have on humans. Particulary the idea that this is a holistic approach to humans. Holistic referring to covering all aspects past and present about humans. Holism: incorporating all aspects or perspectives on an issue. **anthropology is thus comparative because we are interested in the. How and why between different groups of people. Anthropology is also particularistic because we want to know the specifics about people and how things have changed for people over time. Relativism refers to how and why we are interested in value judgements that one culture or one person has against another.
