ANTH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Terrain System, James V. Neel, Linguistic Description
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Unified vision of human life:biology, society, culture. Cultural relativism- approach to understanding difference with respect of how other people do things, open minded. Our own assumptions of how things should be. Try to question and understand what is taken for granted by everyday life and everyday people. Be part of daily life somewhere else(could be an office building in the city or a community in the rain forest) Participate in things to get a real sense of what they are( fix someone"s car with them or go to work) Clear questions we need to answer w. Write everything down so later on they can look back at it and make. What everyday life is for ordinary people. Study people that are different from themselves. What makes people experiences different from others. Interested in knowing what people think about things like products. Ethics: moral principles and rules of conduct, philosophy dealing with values, right and wrong, good and bad.
