AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Science, Scientific Method, Fertility Tourism
Document Summary
Study of all humans in all time and all places study of cultural diversity and variations. Helps through its description of being human science of culture seen from outside. Study of differences and similarities in human cultural possibilities; do not focus too much on one. Unconscious believing that reality is same for everyone (denial diversity) Belief and feeling that ones own culture is best (denial common humanity) More important today because live in multicultural contexts. Countries protect their borders but they are porous relatives from different cultures and countries. Rich and poor nations: climate change, impacts on consumption patterns. Local on global: impacts on transnationalism (migrants, refugees, civil war, economic insecurity. New sites of research: multi-sited (several sites at same time) Call centres, factories, reproductive tourism, biker culture, human rights. Curiosity, adventure, need to know about other cultures. Culture- bound: seeing other cultures through their own cultural lenses. Often emerged armchair anthropologists , were not there.
