Anthropology 1025F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Forensic Anthropology, Jane Goodall, Sociocultural Anthropology
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Is sociocultural anthropology a science: eric wolf: it is the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences . Why do human beings differ in their beliefs and behaviours: all human beings experience specific life events and have needs, birds, death, food, shelter, they differ in the meaning they grant activities and events, different cultural perspectives. Death: the war brazil (in the past ate the dead) If ethnocentrism is intellectually untenable, relativism is equally problematic: relativism poses a moral predicament. Objectivity and morality: colonial powers used cannibalism as a justification to subjugate others. In 1503 queen isabelle decreed: spaniards had a right to enslave the american indians because they are cannibals . Interpret meaning embedded in language, objects, etc. that are shared by members of a society. Q 1. 4: what can learning about other peoples tell anthropologists about their own societies: hockey in canada, national symbol, sense of collective belonging.