ANTH 1120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hegemonic Masculinity, World View, Arnold Van Gennep
12 Dec 2016
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The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings people give to things, events, activities and people. The tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures from the perspective of one"s own culture. The mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one"s own culture. (cultural) relativism: 19. The attempt to understand the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures in terms of the culture in which they are found. The idea that it is impossible to make moral judgements about the beliefs and behaviours of others. Armchair anthropology: 9 (armchair anthropologist) refers to an approach to the study of various societies that dominated anthropology in the late 1800s. It involved the collection, study and analysis of the writings of missionaries, explorers, and colonists who had sustained contact with non-western peoples.
