ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Culture Shock, The Possession, Ethnography
4 Mar 2016
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Cultural relativism: the thesis that one must suspend judgement on other people"s practices to understand them in their own cultural terms. (p. 44) Culture: the shared ideals, values, and beliefs that people use to interpret experience and generate behaviour and that are reflected by their behaviour. (p. 30) Emics: tries to get inside of the head of the informants. Try to convey accurately as possible what people think. The values and norms people must know in order to think like a native. Etics: outsider of observer"s point of view; the norms and conventions of the anthropological community. Enculturation: the process that transmits a society"s culture from one generation to the next. (p. 39) Ethnic boundary markers: those indicators or characteristics, such as dress and language that identify individuals as belonging to a particular ethnic group. (p. 36) Ethnicity: a group of people who take their identity from a common place of origin, history, and sense of belonging. (p. 36)
