ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Eurocentrism, Ethnocentrism

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Georgia Hartman

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Anthro 41a lecture notes week 1: the world before 1942. +there are also gaps within countries in these parts. +not defined nations that can find on map. +past 200 years live in west dominate world. ~seems it might be changing: how/when/why some parts of world first industrialized, emergence of nation states as political organizational system, significant gap between wealthier/poorer parts of the world, the human impact on the environment. Story of the modern world revolves around these. Ethnocentrism: the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions standards/customs of. Idea that west has always been politically and economically dominant because naturally superior. +centered on europe and european peoples and nations. +eurocentrism: evaluate other cultures according to preconceptions originating in. +assumption that these ideas are universally superior and applicable. *rest of world need europe to bring them their values. Idea of european superiority (any of the three reasons) In class take polycentric view of history.