ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ethnocentrism, Culture Shock, Cultural Relativism

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Anthropology (ANTH)
• Course: ANTH 010
• Professor: gaddis

Document Summary

Describing a culture, everything you notice about them, as completely as possible. earliest ethnographers" were pirates, sailors, adventurers, tourists. *ethnology = x-cultural comparison of cultural features, looking for contrasts and similarities between groups ex: foraging or planting strategy, marriage rules. *emic = the culture"s own view of themselves ++ we are the people", everyone else is not. *etic = outsider"s view of a culture ++ generally more technical and critical, we notice things that they take for granted. *ethnocentrism = my culture is better than yours ++ a gut reaction that something is wrong" with them, anthropologists aren"t supposed to do this. *interpretivism = people have created an explanation for a feature of their culture that etically doesn"t hold up. "red is the color of the royal family" *cultural materialism = there is a functional explanation for behavior. Ex: soldiers wear uniforms so that they don"t shoot their own by mistake.