ANTH 100 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Biological Anthropology, Ethnography, Determinism
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Similarities and differences in contemporary human experience. Must be studied in their own setting . Human needs are satisfied by institutions: reproduction marriage and family, renewal people+culture economy and education, control of destiny religion and magic. 1960"s marxist theory materialism: superstructure=ideas, beliefs, values, etc, structure=political+domestic organization, infrastructure=production. Culture=system of meanings that we give to reality. Focus on how people perceive and understand reality= what people think they are doing . We assign what the meaning of the american flag is: it"s a piece of cloth with 3 colors, meaning is more important than the object itself. Anthropologists must consider the role of their own culture in the explanation of the. Other cultures : everyone has their own angle. Structurism vs. agency: structurism: media influences choices, agency: form own opinions. Gay/lesbian anthropology: power and inequality, social activism. Learned and shared set of values, norms, beliefs, and ways of behaving and thinking.
