ANTH 1120 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 - Seeing Through the Eyes of Others
11 May 2017
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Lecture #2 - seeing through the eyes of others. Taking a comparative approach, reflecting on our own experiences. Reflexivity, is a key part of the comparative method. Beliefs - very much shaped by our culture. Not just seeing through the eyes of others, but learning about different bodily experiences. The way we use our bodies is different, it is not universal. Trying to see how other people make sense of the world: to understand how people understand culture. Culture is shared, it is passed on, it is learned. The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things, events, activities and people. Colonial and missionary context of the development of anthropology. Colonialism (europeans), leaving europe, to travel to other places - claiming those places as their own, changing the lives of others in countries.
