Anthropology 4400E Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Cultural Relativism, Sacred Bundle, Sociobiology
16 Jan 2018
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Cultivating cross-sub eld accents for a public voice in unwrapping the sacred bundle. Starts off by saying that anthropology is not the only eld worried about its future. The sacred bundle is the four elds of anthropology. Two-cultures paradigm (taken after the essay by c. p. Lederman takes the public reception of increasingly specialized knowledge from his essay and uses this in his essay. Many disputes within anthropology such as the origin of humans and if neanderthals are a separate species. E. g. sociobiologists loved napoleon chagnon cause they like to emphasize all humans in the world are the same due to evolution whereas socio cultural anthropologists like to advocate for cultural local context. Sociobiologists try to nd unity within diversity. Boas prediction of the four elds dismantling has not come true a century later. At his time the concern was cultural relativism. In the states anthropology deals a lot with race.
