ANTH 2110 Lecture Notes - Veranda, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnocentrism
22 Jun 2013
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Exceeds disciplines in its scope; tries to cover all aspects of the human social. Study of human condition, past and present. Understanding similarities and differences between societies and cultures. Parenting socializing child to become a member of a group. Biological factors, sex/gender, racial features, cultural context. These categories are produced by social institutions and are constantly produced, changes, and contested. As european travellers, colonizers and missionaries were travelling and come across different people, they wanted to understand the differences. Early explorers and missionaries who first came in contact with europe"s other. Much of early anthropology had to do with those who were europe"s other, in sync with the colonial operation/exercise. Had to rethink some of its assumptions and exercises, how to research, critical analysis of the field itself. Natural/stable assumptions in anthropology have come to be questioned. Complex, multilayered unit provides anthropology its approach to understanding social institutions.
