AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociocultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Adam Kadmon
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Logia: the study of/ knowledge of (text, p. 4) Different ways of being humans; different cultures - multi-faceted discipline: biological: evolution, forensics (human rights abuses, for legal purposes, examine bodies), primatology, paleoanthropology, archeology (study of the remains of people, prehistoric and historic, sociocultural anthropology. The study of how societies are structured and how cultural meaning is created - Study humans in their social and cultural settings. Focus on the life ways, traditions of all contemporary society. Became official in the scientific phase- early 20th century. Largely westerners studying other cultures, mostly males, has gone global, perspective and theories were based on the males aspects. The science of culture from the outside. Anthropology is the handmaiden of colonialism (helped colonialism/went along with colonialism: anthro was seen as a type of applied colonialism (how to rule better) some anthropologists served as colonial advisors. Structured relationships between anthropologists and people studies %1. Provided the contexts and opportunities for the study of non westerners.
