ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: List Of Fossil Primates, Dcf Interframe Space, Cultural Relativism
21 Apr 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Anthropology : study of humankind in all times + places. Theory : explanation supported by a reliable body or data. Hypothesis : explanation or the relation bet certain phenomena. Holistic perspective : equips anthropologists to address human nature (biology + culture must be viewed as. Comparative perspective : methods of other scientists by developing hypotheses + arriving at theories broadly as possible) (comparisons bet people + cultures past + present, fossils, etc. Prevents anthrops form distorting their research with their cultural ideas + values. Holistic + comparative perspective or anthro = many insights on human failures + successes, weaknesses + greatness. Ethnocentrism : belief that the ways of one"s own culture is the only proper one. Culture bound : perspective that produces theories about the world + reality based on assumptions + values form the researcher"s own culture. Applied anthro : uses anthro knowledge + methods from 4 subfields to solve.
