ANP 201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Enculturation
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The study of human diversity across time and space. Cross cultural and comparative approach - study/learn about humanity by comparing how is it that different cultures approach similar issues. Holistic approach - the commitment to study the full scope of human life through time and space. A four eld approach (biological/physical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archeology, cultural anthropology) De ning characteristics of cultural anthropology (global in scope, bottom up approach, ethnographic eldwork, attentive to power relations and structures) Culture practices that are in uenced by people"s norms and values. includes knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, artifacts, and institutions that are created, learned, shared and contested by a group of people. It shapes how we relate to each other in the most unconscious ways. Informs our everyday practices and relationships with each other in many ways in which we don"t tend to think about. Characteristics of culture (enculturation, symbolic and material, dynamic) Four components of culture (norms, values, symbols, maps of reality)
