AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Consumerism, Ethnocentrism
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Anthropology seeks to open you to a new perspective that challenges common taken for granted assumptions. Anthropology is a science that studies culture. As scientists that seeks for objectivity, we cannot deny that, as anthropologists, we also have a culture, and that our culture has an impact on our research (reflexivity). Even an atheist scientist does have a specific worldview and beliefs: Science is also based on a cosmovision and it also follows shared conventions. We have different experiences of the world depending on how we depict it. We believe that our way of depicting the world is the true one because that is what we learn in our culture. We are enculturated to think that way, in terms of true or false; objective or subjective. Its linked t o our western conventions. Science have the answer to the questions it wants to ask. Many unexplainable phenomenon are dismissed by science as.
