ANTH 1001 Chapter : Anthropology1
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1/20/2012 4:40:00 pm: way we use to study humans. Relating to or concerned with the whole system rather than the parts. Comparative (cross-cultural: not comparing to make judgments, compare cultures with each other. Ethnocentric: the belief in the inherit superiority of ones own ethnic group or culture. Cultural relativism : opposite of ethnocentric, going in with an open mind about a particular group or culture, each culture has merit within its own system. American anthropology: franz boas (physical, considered as the father of american anthropology and how we study it, human societies are best understood from different perspectives, set the standard, 4-field approach. Middle ages: order, idea that there is a natural higher hierarchal order or arrangement to life, stasis, the idea that things don"t change. Religious beliefs: great chain of being, there was a great supreme being, ladder from the lowest material in the world to the supreme being, impacted the natural world.
