ANTHRO 3AC Lecture 1: Lecture 1.1 - Introduction: E Pluribus Unum
26 Sep 2018
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Introduction: e pluribus unum: social-cultural anthropology, the discipline of anthropology emerged in the late 19th century (in the u. s. , Colonial administration and 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) Multi-ethnic and pluri-cultural societies and globalized systems of inequality. Anthropologists study conditions and consequences of human diversity and inequality. Invest in some phenotypical differences with social significance (inventing social differences over time among those who are fundamentally the same) Diversity as a problem of differences which are themselves socially produced according to the relations of power and the paradigms of inequality. North americans have developed documents symbolizing socio-cultural anthropology. Created by: adams, franklin, jefferson and du simitiere. Du simitiere designed the eye of providence, acting like an anthropologist by promoting the variations in the u. s. 13 steps on the pyramid = 13 states/colonies. Motto: "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to god. -franklin.
