ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Anthropology, Class Discrimination, Scott Atran
10 Dec 2014
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We learn about culture through festivals, food, traditions, family and friends, travelling, mass media, interpretation of society as a whole: people feel that things are natural like being canadian but, they are actually not. For example, someone might say that they are canadian by blood and that it"s biological but it"s not: everything is shaped by culture and not biology, key tenets/ideas that anthropologists are trying to make problematic: Ethnocentrism: the idea that your culture and its values are right or superior to another. This leads to judging another culture according to the standards of your own. Food (eating a particular way, eating something that you think would be unethical) Understanding another society, not adopting their beliefs. Learning about another society by answering questions like why that tradition makes sense for them etc. To solve questions/problems using all available information which leads to getting a complete picture of the society.
