ANT 121 Lecture Notes - Patrilineality, Medical Anthropology, French Fries
20 Jan 2014
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Ethnography to describe a society and include everything. Compartivism the attempt at comparing similarities and differences in difference groups/societies. Anthropology helps make the strange, familiar and the familiar, strange! . Cultural diversity celebrate diversity to build tolerance. Not a big difference between anthropology and sociology. Scientific racism on group clumps another group based on physiological characteristics. Fear that black men will take white women. Enculturation how one learns culture, the passing on of cultural knowledge. Absolute cultural relativism the belief that any society should only be understood by the values and beliefs of that culture, not by another culture. Critical cultural relativism internal struggles considered in a society over values and practices. Ethnocentrism judging another society by your own societies morals and values. Localization conform to the culture that is there; global trends are transformed to work /conform with local trends. Micro culture distinctive culture of a small group of people.
