[ANT 2410] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (71 pages long!)
30 Mar 2017
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What do anthropologists look for: patterns are repetitions of a social or cultural phenomenon. Institution: symbols are something that stands for something else, could be the shared understanding about the meaning of certain words, ideas, attributes, or objects, human universals are characteristics found in all human societies, example) greetings. Approach to cultural anthropology: the approach starts with looking at people and their local communities, study both the people and the structures of power, anthropologists believe that all humans are connected. Body ritual among the nacirema: ceremonies and rituals are an important part of any culture, nacirema is american spelled backwards, and horace miner explains american morning rituals in a way that sounds foreign and strange. It focuses on americans as people who worship the mouth: exorcises mouth demons = brushing your teeth, visiti(cid:374)g the (cid:862)magi(cid:272)al mouth ma(cid:374)(cid:863) visiting the dentist.
