ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Enculturation, Cultural Relativism, Ethnohistory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 1101
• Professor: Deborah Sick

Document Summary

Ant 1101 introduction to social & cultural anthropology. Historical background (new tech. allowed for ppl. to travel more; long distance trade and travel; w/ this new tech like steam ships allowed ppl particularly. Europeans to move faster than before europeans moving into the world faster. Culture-bound theories (assumptions ppl. had about how the world was really ordered). Many of their theories assumed europeans civil"ztn was at a pinnacle and other cultures they were discovering were