ANTH-101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Richard Potts, Paleoanthropology, Faith Salie

• School: MacEwan University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH-101
• Professor: Katie Biittner

Document Summary

Is it ethical to not try: first responsibility: to those who are being studied, everything should be done to ensure their welfare and dignity will be protected, report openly and truthfully about findings. Inclusion of those being studied in the process (policies, research) Dualism: human nature as made up of two different yet equal sources. Idealis(cid:373): (cid:862)(cid:272)ogito e(cid:396)go su(cid:373)(cid:863); ideas/the (cid:373)i(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitutes the esse(cid:374)(cid:272)e of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:374)atu(cid:396)e. Materialism: activities of our physical bodies in the material world make us. Determinism: human nature as determined by the causal force of physical matter (most extreme form of these (cid:862)is(cid:373)s(cid:863)(cid:895) What links and distinguishes anthropologists from biologists, classicists, linguists, geographers, or sociologists: cultural relativism. Understanding another culture in its own terms, we do this to understand this culture as a coherent and meaningful living. Ideas meanings, beliefs, and values people learn in a society determine their behaviors. Re(cid:272)og(cid:374)izi(cid:374)g that the(cid:396)e is (cid:374)o su(cid:272)h thi(cid:374)g as (cid:862)a(cid:863) (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e.