ANT100Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Love Marriage, Complementary Distribution, Phoneme
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Two moieties of anthropology: evolutionary (biological) and archaeological, bones and stones , linguistic &semiotic social-cultural. Anthropology was largely the discipline for explaining the non-west (the general public and early anthropologists understood the non- West in terms of three kinds of difference: linguistic (language) [linguistic ant. ] cultural [(social) cultural ant. ] physical / racial [physical (bio) ant. : material [cultural ant. and archaeology] This is also how most western nations understood themselves. Seeing everything from the perspective of one"s own biasm and superiority. Anthropologists had an ambiguous relationship with imperialism and ethnocentrism: modern anthropologists contributed to the building of western empires although there are some prejudices still. 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.