ANTH1030 Final: ANTH1030 EXAM notes Semester 2.docx
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Ethnographic fieldwork (a branch of anthropology dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures. ) Tries to understand other world views, other people, their cultures, the way they do things tries to contextualise and communicate this. Core concepts in the anthropology of world issues: globalisation, super- modernity and beyond. Human animals: ferality, the law and the anthropologist. Pig hunting: how it"s done and what it means. Nature" and culture": history and use of concepts: theory in practice: conflicts over feral pig management in far north queensland. Environmental management is not just about the environment. Anthropological research, activism and the anthropologist: nature, culture and the environment. The conceptual division of nature" and culture" is a culturally and historically specific classification of things. Timothy ingold depicts the difference between western" and. The world as a globe: we are taught that this is what the earth looks like, although none of us, with a handful of exceptions, has ever seen it.
