ANTH 1001 Lecture : Anthropology Notes
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Biocultural approach: relationship between biology and culture. Holistic: referring to the whole system, relating to or concerned with the who system rather than the parts, ex. Holistic medicine, in reference to people what do people eat how do they dress ect. Ethnocentric: the belief in the inherent superiority of ones own ethnic group or culture, tendency of viewing other cultures from your own prospective. Cultural relativism : keeping an open mind about a particular group or culture, each culture has its own merit within its own system. Fieldwork: a time of data collection, going out and studying a different culture, working in a museum, looking up documents in an archive, working in a laboratory. Anthropology: four subfields, linguistic anthropology, scientific study of human language, also could be the study of communication. Political anthropology, medical anthropology: archaeology, study of the past based on material remains (tools, pottery, ceramics, clothing, etc, excavating and examining materials.
