ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unum, Novus Ordo Seclorum, Cultural Anthropology
23 Jan 2017
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Socio-cultural anthropology: the discipline of anthropology emerged in the late 19th century (in the u. s. , Colonial administration + scientific documentation of varieties of human existence. Use of that documentation to contest racist accounts of human development. Romantic exoticism entwined with humanist universalism (tarzan: an anthropological sense - european colonial conquests. Multi-ethnic and pluri-cultural societies and globalized systems of inequality: anthropologists study conditions & consequences of human diversity and inequality. People invest some phenotypical differences with social significance thereby inventing social differences among those who are fundamentally the same (skin color, hair color, length of eyelashes) Socio-cultural anthropology: diversity as a problem of differences which are themselves socially produced according to the relations of power and the paradigms of inequality. North america vs. south americans - social differences and inequality. North americans have developed documents symbolizing socio- cultural anthropology. Providence, acting like an anthropologist by promoting the variations in the u. s. ) 13 steps on the pyramid = 13 states/colonies.
