ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Ethnology, Social Anthropology, Ethnography
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The study of human society and culture, the subfield that descirbes, analyses, interprets, and explains social and cultural similarities and differences. It is particularly concerned with exploring cultural adaptation. Modern cultural anthropology has origins in 19th century. Ethnology, which involves the organized comparison of human societies. Ethnology uses secondary data to compare and contrast and to make generalizations about societies and cultures. Early colonial ethnologists worked mostly with materials collected by others, usually missionaries armchair anthropology . Modern cultural anthropology is characterized by the practice of ethnography, which is both a research method and the product of that research that describes and interprets a culture. British social anthropology focused on society and sociality. Exploring relationships and social institutions (religion, economics, politics) America cultural anthropology focused on the ways people expressed their view of themselves and their world, especially in symbolic forms. These approaches frequently converged and generally complimented each other.
