ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Participant Observation, Margaret Mead, Religion In Africa
5 Sep 2014
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Socio-cultural anthropology is one of 4 sub-disciplines of anthropology. What issues and questions are socio-cultural anthropologists interested in: culture. A key word for anthropologists that represents a holistic, integrated and comparative approach to human difference. Ca text emphasizes that culture is the system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another (p. 6) Culture is a term that helps us to think about how and why there are different meanings attached to common life events and practices: horace miner, body ritual among the nacirema . An anthropologist writing about a strange and different culture. What do you think he s saying about anthropology and how anthropologists think and write about culture: thinking critically about culture . Ethnocentric fallacy, or ethnocentrism when we judge other group s behaviours or beliefs according to our own beliefs and behaviours with the assumption that ours are right and true.
