ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Linguistic Anthropology, Youth Culture, Enculturation
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Anthropology the study of humans (all times, all places, all aspects of humanity) Anthropologists are interested in biology and culture. Paleontologists are not anthropologists because they focus on dinosaurs: has many of the same techniques as anthropologists. Incorporating all aspects or perspectives on an issues instead of only one. Comparative : focus on comparing different groups of people, past and present, beliefs, similarities and differences. Particularistic: very interested in a particular group of people, how their society, culture changes or not changes over time, interested in understanding particular systems and societies, ie. Youth culture in north america or south asia. Relativistic: interested in why people in one culture/society will judge the beliefs, behaviors, practices of other societies as good or bad, right or right, ethnocentrism is another name for this, values of why this came about. Both advantage and disadvantage: acquire a very diverse background.
