ANTH 1120 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Cultural Relativism, Nacirema, Sociocultural Anthropology
16 Apr 2015
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Anth 1120: making sense of a changing world. Announcements: a quiz for the academic integrity module in spark (http://www. yorku. ca/spark) has just been launched. If you would like to complete the academic integrity quiz, here is the link: https://moodle. yorku. ca/moodle/course/view. php?id=52143. Socio-cultural anthropology is one of 4 sub-disciplines of anthropology. What issues and questions are socio-cultural anthropologists interested in: culture. A key word for anthropologists that represents a holistic, integrated and comparative approach to human difference. Ca text emphasizes that culture is the system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another (p. 6) Culture" is a term that helps us to think about how and why there are different meanings attached to common life events and practices: horace miner, body ritual among the nacirema . An anthropologist writing about a strange and different" culture. What do you think miner"s purpose was in writing about the.
