AN220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Primatology, Ethnocentrism, Evolutionism
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Ethnology: building theories about cultural behaviours and forms. Linguistic anthropology: interconnections among language, culture and society (worldview) Biological/physical anthropology: the study of human origins and contemporary biological diversity. Paleoanthropology: human evolution (primatology: study of non-human primates) Applied anthropology: application of the techniques and theories of anthropology to solving real-world problems (ex: forensaic anthropology) Distinguishing features of anthropology: focus on the concept of culture, comparative perspective, holistic perspective. Definition of culture: culture is the values, beliefs, technological knowledge and rules of conducts acquired by learning. Culture hegemony: the use of cultural beliefs to justify and support social hierarchy and political domination. Counterculture: an alternative cultural model within a society that expresses different views about the way that society should be organized. Worldview: culture-based, often ethnocentric, way that people see the world and other people globalization: the process by which the exchange o products, investment, and people across national and regional boundaries increases.
