ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Evolutionism, Cinema Of Australia, Determinism
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Judging a person from the perspective of one"s own culture. And racism: belief that some human populations are superior to others based on inherited genetic differences. Boas emphasized fieldwork based on rigorous scientific methodology o. Living with the people: participating in their everyday lives. Attention to power differences, complexity of cultures. To get you thinking about your own culture and how it is represented in stereotypes. And to extend this to other cultures that may seem exotic or weird. To help recognize the power and inequality that are a part of our daily existence. Human cultural change can be perceived as an evolutionary process. Some cultures are more evolved than others. When colonial and native groups meet the group that has more power, they can impose ethnocentric ideas on the other to justify inequality. But, this dynamic is not limited to cultural groups or colonial encounters o.
