ANTH 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pierre Bourdieu, Cultural Relativism, Microbiological Culture

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 203
• Professor: Naotaka Hayashi

Document Summary

1-) holism (importance of looking at cultures as complex systems, need of paying attention to various facets) 2-) cultural relativism (the idea that each culture must be understood in terms of the values and beliefs of that culture) 2"-) ethnocentrism (judging other cultures by the standards of one"s own) 3-) ethnography (detailed first-hand information based on personal observations) 3"-) comparative study/ethnology (compare a particular topic in more than once culture using ethnographic material) Japanese macaques in hot springs -> culture // cat plunging into card box -> instinct. 4 fields of anthropology; social/cultural, linguistic, physical . Culture - e. b tylor (1871) founder of anthropology culture is a complex whole culture is to be learned and shared, without culture we are incomplete in society. Enculturation: culture is all of the things that humans must learn to know and in order to competent members of society. We modify landscape to fit with our lifestyle.