ANTH 1120 Midterm: Anthropology Midterm Exam Review.docx
14 Apr 2014
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Culture: the system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things, events, activities, and people. Ethnocentrism: the tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of others from the perspective of one"s own culture. Ethnocentric fallacy: the mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one"s own culture. Relativism: the attempt to understand the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures in terms of the culture in which they are found. Relativistic fallacy: the idea that it is impossible to make moral judgements about the beliefs and behaviours of members of other cultures. Armchair anthropology: an approach to the study of various societies that dominated anthropology in the late 1800s. It involved the collection, study, and analysis of the writings of missionaries, explorers, and colonists who had sustained contact with non-western peoples.
