ANTH 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Language Change, Ethnocentrism, Biological Anthropology
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Anthropology: study if full scope of human diversity and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another. Greek anthropos: human and logos: thought, reason, or study. As people start to go all over the world, colonizing, exploring, trading, and etc, they started to find exotic people. Franz boas: sort of showed that all europeans are similar. During an era when u. s. immigration privileged north and western europeans over southern and eastern. Audrey richards: studied bemba people which is now zambia. Wrote chisungu; she is credited with opening a pathway for nutritional issues and women"s health and children"s health in anthropology. 60% of anthropologist work in applied anthropology: shit that makes a difference in the current world. Ethnocentrism: the belief that your culture, way of life is better/ more normal / natural that other people"s. Ethnographic work: cultural anthropologists uses this to sort of walk a mile in their shoes.
