ANT 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Relativism, Ethnography, Moral Relativism
2 Sep 2016
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What it means to be human greek: anthropos=human being, human logy=study of. Holistic-looks at the whole (especially culture) highly inclusive of all aspects. Comparative- consider similarities and differences in as wide a range of human societies as possible. Field based-anthropologists gather their own data during periods of field research. Evolutionary-place their own observations about human nature/society/past in a temporal and geographical framework over time: biological. Human origins, genetic variation and inheritance (pre and contemp: linguistic, change in material culture technology, historical ecology (change in relationship w non-human nature) Biological, cultural, linguistics (human language, origins, diversity, and change over time), archaeology: applied anthropology- using info from all 4 subfields and applying it professionally and in the real-world. Phrenology-character, personality traits, criminality bc of shape of head/skull. Samuel g. morton claimed that the north americans/europeans had larger brain cases than africans= were inferior and whites were therefore smarter but stephen jay gould contradicted his findings and said that.
