ANTH 1120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Enculturation, Grammatical Gender, Zoroastrianism
15 Sep 2016
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Culture: a system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another. Culture consists of food, traditional clothing (i. e. saree among. Ethnocentrism: the tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures from the perspective of one"s own culture. In the movie cannibal tour , the australian anthropologist saw the samoans as. Backwards and primitive as they believed their own culture was more advanced. Ethnocentric fallacy: the mistaken notion that other"s beliefs and cultures can be judged from the viewpoint of one"s own culture. Cannibal tours, notion that the anthropologists believe they can judge. Relativism: the attempt to understand a culture"s beliefs and behaviours in terms of the culture in which they are found. For example, some anthropologists believe they must stay indifferent to certain practices such as female genital modification as it is a part of another culture despite it"s moral value.
