Anthropology 1025F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Marius Barbeau, Bronisław Malinowski, Sociocultural Anthropology

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 1025F/G
• Professor: Terry Webb

Document Summary

Study of human kind in all times and places. Distinguishes between cultures, as well as finds similarities. Attempts to offer scientific explanations for human diversity. Trace evolutionary development of humans as biological organisms. Often conduct excavations of sites that have evidence of human activity. Study how language is used for practicing/developing/transmitting culture. See how people use language to relate to one another by living with different cultures for brief periods. Anthropologists immerse themselves within different cultures by living/participating with them and observing how they live. When one nation dominates another through occupation, administration, and control of resources, thereby creating a dependency. Promoting one nation"s values, beliefs, and behaviours as superior to those of others. An early theory that all cultures passed through evolutionary stages until they reached the technologically advanced level of western societies. Empiricist who argued that every culture is unique and is neither superior or inferior to another.