ANTH 195 Lecture 1: ANTH 195 Lecture 1 -- First Class
ANTH 195 Lecture 1
What is Anthropology?
● Broad
● Global
● Historical and current
Holistic perspective
● Any aspect of a culture is integrated with other aspects
● No dimension understood by itself
Comparative
● Make strange, familiar and the familiar, strange
● Taking what we learn from other cultures
Relative
● Multiple ways of understanding and living in the world
● No culture is superior/inferior to another
Field-Based Discipline
● No data sets of another’s work
● WE do the research
● Interaction with culture under research
Culture -- sets of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society
Fields of Anthropology:
1. Archaeology -- people of the past
2. Biological -- how we have changed
3. Linguistic -- language as symbolic communication
4. Cultural -- how cultures vary/are similar
The Idea of “culture” has changed over time…
Tyler:
● First to include art, knowledge
● Who has culture?
○ Recognizes ALL people
○ BUT some cultures better than others
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Document Summary
Any aspect of a culture is integrated with other aspects. Make strange, familiar and the familiar, strange. Taking what we learn from other cultures. Multiple ways of understanding and living in the world. Culture -- sets of learned behavior and ideas that human beings acquire as members of society. Fields of anthropology: archaeology -- people of the past, biological -- how we have changed, linguistic -- language as symbolic communication, cultural -- how cultures vary/are similar. The idea of culture has changed over time .
