ANTH 1150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Marvin Harris, Cultural Anthropology, Human Conditions

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Female80-minute Anthroprof

Document Summary

Biological/ physical: study human conditions by focusing on biological and physical aspects of the human (height, weight) Archeological: study human condition by studying material remains from the past (bone fragments, pots) Linguistic: study human conditions by studying on how language is used in context (metaphor) Social/cultural: present cultures in society, understanding diversity. Culture shock, cultural misunderstanding: anthropologists often conduct a year-long study by using the language of their informants, making personal contacts with them, and observing their ways of life. Responsibility to scholarship and science: can"t make up or distort data. Responsibility to people and animals studied: do no harm. Responsibility to the public: presentation to the people, must debrief after study: what is culture? (example) Learned: growing up in a particular place, (language depending on where we grow up) Illustrates that people can indigenize a foreign practice introduced by the colonizers. Infrastructure is the most important layer since it determined the other two.