ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Diamond Jenness, Ivory Tower, Coronation Gulf
15 Apr 2016
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Wade davis is a canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in north and south america and particularly involving the traditional uses and beliefs associated with psychoactive plants. Davis came to prominence with his 1985 best selling book the serpent and the. Anthropologists focus on key areas of culture, for example: death, marriage, economics. Anthropologists attempt to document and understand cultural differences. Anthropologists attempt to discover laws and generalisms, perhaps universalisms. Through examining other cultures anthropologists often gain insights into their own culture. An approach in anthropology that employs data regarding the behavior and beliefs in many societies to document cultural universal and cultural identity. We agreed to use ethnography" as the term for descriptive accounts of non-literate peoples the comparative study of the institutions . Working out chronicles: culture histories, archaeological sequences, biological evolutionary development etc.
