ANTHRO 2A- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 28 pages long!)
Document Summary
Palace made entirely of glass and steel and served as national identity. Denial of the fact that the primitive exist in the same time period. Need to save and preserve the culture of those that are dying out. Interactive approach in which anthropologists study a group of people in their own environment by living with them and participating in their daily lives. A detailed qualitative account of the results of ethnographic fieldwork. Describes observations and analyzes meaning, form, and structure. Cannot assume that your own beliefs are the same as anyone else"s. Everything is relative based on the individual. There are many ways to be right and many ways to be wrong . Learned and shared, not inherited or universal. Not biological, psychological, not a matter of philosophy. Development of the culture concept in response to sociocultural evolutionism. Plural - world is made up of plural histories. Particular - culture must be understood in its own terms .
