SOCA 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Collet
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Anthropology: is the study of human nature, human society, and the human past, the systematic study of humankind. Anthropologist: explore human societies, culture, and physical diversity across time and space, field based, collect data from direct contact with people, sites, or animals. Four subfields of anthropology (2-9: biological and physical, cultural, archaeology, and linguistic, study of past cultures. What is anthropology: central task of the anthropologists is to make familiar strange and strange familiar. Strange familiar, familiar strange: ethnocentrism conceded with humans as biological species. The assumption that one"s own way of doing things correct, while dismissing other people"s practice or views as wrong or ignorant: cultural relativism. The principal that an individual humans belief and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individuals own culture. Most wanted to explain and control: anthropologist have a dark history.
