ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sociocultural Anthropology, Pesto, Moretum
Document Summary
Social-cultural anthropology: the discipline of anthropology emerged in the 19th century. Colonial administration and scienti c documentation of varieties of human existence. Use of documentation to contest racist accounts of human development. Romantic exoticism entertained with humanist universalism: an anthropological sense: european colonial conquests. Multiethnic and multicultural societies and globalized system of inequality: anthropologists study conditions and consequences of human diversity and inequality. People invest some phenotypical differences with social signi cance thereby inventing social differences among those who are fundamentally the same. Novos rodo seclorum and annuit cueptis = favor or give approval to the beginnings of a new age. Eye of providence has 13 steps on pyramid. E pluribus unum = from many one: virgils poem - moretum. The peasant is making the pesto and producing one color from many. Thursday, august 25, 2016 ingredients: radical experiment = motto, two kinds of meanings. A social experiment in a new kind of multiethnic multicultural, multiracial, and multicolored nation.
