ANT102H5 Chapter Notes -Hutterite, Umbundu, Visible Minority
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In socio-cultural anthropology, and science generally, the world is observed to find patterns and insight, attempting to understand other cultures and ourselves. Due to one"s own culture, their beliefs and behaviours differ from other cultures naturally because they have experienced different events with different meaning. Due to a difference in culture, people judge other via rejection and condemnation. People may be committing the ethnocentric fallacy of believing that all outside cultures and beliefs are incorrect. Relativistic fallacy implies that it is impossible to make moral judgments about the beliefs and behaviours of others. Topic debates whether anthropologists should remain objective when studying cultures, simply document, observe and write, or whether they should judge/critisize the situation, or practice what is moral when encountering ethical issues within cultures, fight for the culture. How do we explain the transformation of human societies over the past. Sedentary agriculture war easier, less dangerous and more productive, it also gave farmers more time for leisure.
