ANTH 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bride Price, Cultural Relativism, Xenophobia
2 Feb 2018
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Important terms: ethnocentrism: eg. cultural extinctions, xenophobia: fear of things foreign, eg. atrocities, native tasmanians, cultural relativism: eg. eskimos and the elderly. Values: defi(cid:374)ed as (cid:862)e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)ally (cid:272)harged prefere(cid:374)(cid:272)es(cid:863, core-values can be highly variable cross-culturally, eg. Americans value freedom and free-choice: marriage, vote, career, speech: socialist/communist countries not the same because of political history, eg. Bodily functions: america vs japan: nude bathing japanese would bathe nude together, (cid:862)shut(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)u(cid:374)(cid:272)hi(cid:863) shut is toilet cleaner. Their commercials showed feces dancing in toilet: condom factory, many values are idiosyncratic: dependent upon the individual eg. vegetarianism, values are often highly divisive in nature, egs. Extended postpartum sexual taboos abstain from sex after child is born usually for 2-4 years: horticulture and kwashiorkor protein deficiency disease, compatible in western culture, values change, eg. Invention: a novel rearrangement or use of preexisting knowledge or technologies: eg"s, american football came from rugby, baseball from cricket, invention of the airplane, warfare technology.
