ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Cultural Relativism, Homo Sapiens, Semiotics
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Age of imperialism: britain and france (the west ) More knowledge of other people anthropologists. Understood different places in terms of four kinds of differences (and also how they understood themselves: linguistics, cultural, physical (race, material culture. Each culture responds to its own niche equally well. Each culture is a complex of language, culture, and physical type, and none is inferior to any other. A higher culture is one that recognizes that we are all equally human. Different psychological types in different cultural groups, but no hierarchy (don t evaluate people in your terms, evaluate them in their terms) One system of signifying (making sense: others include: pictures & signs. Regardless of its content, a new medium (channel) will change the way we live: i. e. T. v. changed the world no matter what is playing . Coined the term global village : identity formation. The way you speak helps create identity i. e. asians in canada call themselves asians but.
