CLAC01H3 Lecture 3: lecture 3
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Anthropology is holistic, comparative, field based for anthropologists, being holistic means trying to fit together all that is known about human beings. That is, anthropologists draw on the findings of many different disciplines that study human beings as well as data on similar topics that they have collected, and attempt to produce an encompassing picture of human life. Holistic perspective can also be understood in relation to cultural relativism and anthropologists" battle against ethnocentrism: Cultural relativism holds that a specific belief or behaviour can only be understood in relation to the culture the system of meanings in which it is embedded (robbins et al. Portrays a given culture from the natives" point of view . Holistic, comparative (cross-cultural), & relativistic perspectives on cultures. Holistic approach: assumption that any aspect of a culture is integrated with other aspects, so that no dimension of culture can be understood in isolation.
