ANT 1101 Study Guide - Risk Management, Emic And Etic, Nuclear Family
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Emergence of anthropolgy as a distinct discipline: historical background, based on a european discipline, cannot be objective, yet will always strive for it, culture bound theories, try and explain the world in a way that is similar to their own society, anthropologists try to test these theories by using it on several different cultures and using common factors to create a non culture bound theory. Types of research & analysis: ethnography, description of a particular culture based on first hand experience, ethnology, systematic comparison of different types of societies, ethnohistory, study of recent past; antonym of archaeologists, applied, trying to use anthropological knowledge to solve real world problems, two branches. Gender: learned socio cultural construct, which provides guidelines for behaviour, social identity, and status: learned, enculturation: process of learning culture, processes & forces of enculturation, based on symbols, transmitted via language & other symbol systems (washroom signs,
