ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, Barometer
31 Dec 2016
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Seek to understand, rather than relay information. Facts vs. opinion; seek to acquire more detailed info through experience rather integrate and learn culture than going by what is reported. Go beyond observation and look for logic behind beliefs and behaviours. Biological/physical: focus on human and primate biology, centered around evolution. Archaeology: interpreting past civilizations through material remains and artefacts. Linguistic anthropology: the study of human capacity for language and its relationship with culture. Sociocultural anthropology: the study of contemporary people through cultural lens, that is to understand system of meanings ascribed to beliefs and behaviors in a particular culture usually done through fieldwork. Culture: system of meanings attached to nature of experience that are shared and passed down from generation to generation in a particular group. An anthropologist writing about a strange and different" culture. Written to put misrepresentation and exoticizing into perspective for americans. Article example of anthropologists othering culture (objectifying)
