ANTH 1120- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 45 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1120
• Professor: Ryan James

Document Summary

Anthro = holistic, integrated and comparative approach to human difference=how these are interrelated. Culture is not a thing, it"s about meaning: How meanings are made, shared, and how they change and why: nacirema. Nacirema = exotic sounding name, sounds tribal, indigenous. What we do to our hair in salons. Body shape and size: culture- critical perspective. Tendency to judge behaviours or beliefs of other cultures from perspective of one"s own culture/traditions. Results in ethnocentric fallacy = our beliefs and practices are right which others are wrong. Attempt to understand beliefs, and behaviours of other cultures in terms of the culture in which they are found, so every culture or tradition has to be understood on its own terms. Results in relativistic fallacy = the idea that it"s impossible to make judgements about other people"s cultural practices/beliefs: politically comitted anthro. Results in heavy concentration on social justice and human rights as main areas of interest for anthropologists.