ANTC61H3 Lecture : Lectue 2.docx
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Culture might be the reason of conversation or for disagreeing. Disagreements occur in cultural contexts: when we experience a radical disjunction, there is no conversation. Some rules are more dominant than others power: use cultural context to avoid being ethnocentric. That everyone should see the world in the way we do and those who don"t are wrong: have to see our situation changes the way we things, highlights certain issues. Franz boaz and benedict: use the notion of culture to challenge the discourse about race. In the early years, people were really about evolutionary anthropology and put those on to social development: europe most evolved, non european no evolved, north america franz boaz and benedict were troubled about race. Immigrants didn"t score as well on certain tests (iq) Boaz saw through this and said it was cultural. First generation immigrants didn"t do so well but children if they had the same opportunities did well.
