ANT 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnocentrism, Educated Guess, Primatology
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Human culture and evolutionary aspects of human biology. Holistic approach (using multiple perspectives to fix a problem) Combines four fields: culture, linguistic, archaeological, biological/physical (cid:862)multii disciplinary(cid:863) Ethnography is the central tool (written description of a culture) Recovery analysis and interpretation of material culture. Attempts to understand underlying cognitive underlying cognitive processes through the use and structure of language. Theory: broad statement of scientific relationships or underlying principles that has been proven. Conception culture: a set of learned behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, values, an ideals that are characteristic of a particular society or population. Edward b. tyler: that complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs, and habits according to man. Culture is learned, inculcated (constantly do a thing from the start), shared, ideational, gratifying, adaptive and integrative. 2 ways an anthropologist can discover cultural patterns: highly visible customs, something that is shared within a population.
