ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unum, United States One-Dollar Bill, Pierre Eugene Du Simitiere
17 Nov 2020
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Lecture 1. 1: introduction: e pluribus unum: social-cultural anthropology, the discipline of anthropology emerged in the late 19th century (in the u. s. , latin. 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.
