ACS 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Stiff Upper Lip, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Franz Boas

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 100
• Professor: Tanti

Document Summary

Papa franz boas (father of american anthropology) We embrace the analytical value of (cid:494)relativism(cid:495) meaning that we take up the position that every cultural expression needs to be considered and understood without context or relatively. We are empiricists, meaning that we use data to backup your claims. We use holistic in our approach to this data. We use qualitative and quantitative techniques and analyses. Dr. osborne likes to think of anthropology as (cid:494)applied philosophy(cid:495) (may be on exam) Part of the construction of a national identity is the construction of a narrative. A story that a nation tells about itself as it relates to itself and to others. In canada, an undeniable aspect of this construction is as it relates to the us: an inevitable result of a complex and fraught geographical, social, economic, and political, relationship. Imagining canada: the singing mountie and other commodifications of nation. The trajectory of the mountie as an authoritarian and authenticating sign in narratives.