ANTH 2170 Study Guide - Cultural Relativism, Lewis H. Morgan, Margaret Mead
27 Mar 2014
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Social/cultural anthropology: study of contemporary human societies throughout the world, politics, economics, religion, identities (gender, class, race), globalization, etc, tend to specialize, ethnographic fieldwork spending a year with a group of people (live with them to try to understand how they perceive their world) example: olympic figure skater world( went to press conference, stayed the same hotel, practiced the same session) involves intimate interaction with others, long term of interaction with groups of people. Culture sets of learned behaviours acquired by people as members of society. Various agents of enculturation transmit these behaviours: culture is thus shared, learned, and dynamic. Is that not something that is genetic, biological, hardwired, or instinctual. However, we tend to think and talk about it as if it is . we naturalize. By specializing in one or more of the four sub-fields of anthropology we talked about yesterday archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, physical anthro.
