ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Unilineality, Scientific Racism, Relativism
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Processes - understand people and how we act/organize. Within the process of change; not outside. Mechanisms in history - patterns/how conditions change because of environment, politics, etc. Role of the individual -> neoliberalism; how do people shape/understand their lives. How ideas are a part of that change. Nuer -> get at the history of the nuer; not seen as studying an isolated group. Ethnography/ ethnology - making comparisons across cultures through case studies. Importance of the individual, what is right and wrong. Relativism - can"t measure everyone by the same yardstick; hierarchy, scientific racism, social revolution; unilineal / universalism - general argument; what do we all share; concepts used to understand things. How to understand, respect, and analyze cultures. Draw conclusions, but question them - try to find conclusions. Our social values are always tied into the economic conditions of our culture. Connection between big regulations/markets to how people imagine/connect to the world.
