ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Darmok, Ethnocentrism, James Rachels
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Etic: outsider perspective: when first coming into contact with another culture many approach that culture from an etic standpoint. Incommensurability: the beliefs, practices/behaviors found in one culture may be. Examples: napoleon chagnon: did field work on yanomamo very difficult for outsiders to understand. Ethnocentrism: the perspective that your own culture is superior: if you"re ethnocentric it is hard to study other cultures unbiasly. Holistic perspective: anthropologists generally try to understand how different elements or aspects of society integrate with each other. The middle-ages: 500 a. d. 1500 a. d: the tributary system, king nobles/lords warrior class merchant/middle. After the 1500s: people began to reject the tributary systems, by the 1800s, social sciences emerged to explain how and why society works or should work. People were less accepting to the idea that god had installed their rulers. The social sciences of the era were influenced by natural.
