ANTHROP 1AA3 Final: Entire course content including photos
3 Dec 2018
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Naturalizing discourses thinking about our identities as if they are natural and not cultural. Ethnocentrism - the erroneous idea that one"s culture and its values are somehow right or superior to another culture"s. Many people therefore judge another culture according to the standards of their own. Cultural relativism - an approach adopted and promoted by anthropologists. Anthropology is holistic - 1) understanding how different aspects of societies are inter-related. Sociolinguistics the relationship between language and social behaviour in different cultures. Ethnography a description of an aspect of culture within a society. Holism: efforts to reconstruct all aspects of the iceman"s life health status / nutrition. Gender the observable physical characteristics that distinguishes the two" kinds of human being males and females required for reproduction. Sex refers to biological distinctions such as chromosomal, hormonal or physical differences between males and females.
