ANTH 150- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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Anthropology is the study of human diversity through time and space. The study of living human cultures and societies based on participant- observation in fieldwork. Ethnocentrism: the tendency to evaluate other cultures or ways of life through the lens of your own. Cultural relativism: the belief that we must understand others cultural practices on their own terms. Symbolic anthropology - the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be interpreted to a particular society. A symbol is a cultural expression which has a particular culture has arbitrarily associated with a particular meaning. Geertz on religion - system of symbols. Root metaphors provide orientations, teach ways of being in and thinking about the world. Key scenarios are stories or myths that portray cultural beliefs of values. Myth provides knowledge about how the world works, how to control the world, myth and science coexist. The virgin of guadalupe as a mexican national symbol. She appeared in 1531 to christian indian.
