ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linguistic Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Nacirema
27 Sep 2015
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Recap from class 1: anthropology from greek: anthropos man , human being + logos speech , Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. (primitive culture: 1) Increasing tendency to view anthropology in analogy to art, or as a hybrid between art and science. The anthropological perspective: traditional anthropology is not superfluous, a serious effort to understand the. Body ritual among the nacirema: anthropological classic, meaningful on multiple levels, on the surface a persiflage of how anthropology describes other culture: Anthropologist as expert: learned the language, gained trust, learned the secrets exoticism, looking for the bizarre of the culture. Credibility is produced by use of indigenous terms : notgnihsaw, latipso. On a deeper level a play with oppositional categories: ritual vs. medicine, magic vs. science, belief vs. knowledge.
