ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Relativism, Planets In Astrology

• School: UConn
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000
• Professor: eric williamson

Document Summary

Anthropology - the study of humanity past,present, and future. Paleoanthropology - deals with human origins, where we came from. Archaeology - deals with more recent past, people and cultures are gone but material culture still is left. Cultural anthropology - the study of living changing cultures. Social networks - web of complex relationships by which we connect ourselves to each other and by that we increase our chances of survival. Find beliefs we share with each other. Sanctions - punishment for violations of appropriate behavior or beliefs. External sanction - something taken away from you from the outside ex; Internal sanctions - feeling of being ashamed or bad ex; The values that people have to belong to a particular group or culture. Reflexivity - asking why we believe what we believe. Cultural relativism - understanding someone else"s culture that is different from you. Ethnocentrism (opposite from cultural relativism) - judging other cultures based on your beliefs.