ANTH 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Historical Particularism
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Study of cultures, study of contemporary people through the concept of culture. Both the universal (global/broad) and particular (local/everyday) moving between those two level of inquiry and analysis. A system of meaning shared by a group, passed down generation to generation. A lens or frame for how we see reality, usually unconscious or taken for granted. Includes standards and values that we use to judge or give meaning to things, events, activities and people. Is dynamic it changes over time and trough interaction with other ideas, practices, people, places and things. Not one universal culture, learned not natural. Subjective lens or frame, taken for granted, common sense . Shapes our understanding and experience of the world. Values, norms, etiquette, people judge or give meaning to things. Changes over time and through interaction with other ideas, practices, places and things. Verb rather than a noun (process vs state of being) Universal and natural, everyone lives within human culture.