ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adam Kadmon, Primatology, Cultural Relativism
20 Feb 2015
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The systematic study of humankind, both in the past and in the present. Looking a cultures before it was written records. Human culture: learned behaviours and beliefs that shape our human experiences. Religion, spirituality, identities (gender, race, ethnicity, nationalism), food preferences. We tend to think about many of our behaviors and identities as. Nationalism use terms like it"s in my blood to be an american, but. Americans are taught what it means to be american. Ethnocentrism: the idea that your culture and its values are somehow right or superior to another. You therefore judge another culture according to the standards of your own. Cultural relativism: understanding a society in its own terms. Holism - integrative approach; making use of all available information and sub- fields to obtain a more complete picture of a society. Cultural anthropology: studies religion and particularly religious fundamentalism (among other things)
