HIS101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stateless Society, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology
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Cultural anthropology culture as a system of symbols (language, gestures, religion) Social anthropology focus on social relations (structure of the family, church, political institutions) *ethnography: the scienti c description of the customs of individual people and cultures. Anthropology is not an exact science as they rely on their own ideas and perspective. How anthropologist analyze things are modi ed by their own bias and opinions. The work of anthropology is from colonialism as the colonist would control and pacify a region so that a anthropologist could come in and study them. You see patterns not just within cultures but across cultures as they react to stimuli in similar ways. Violence was not seen as a social pathology as something barren or criminal. Today we view acts of violence as pathological and abnormal because we live in a paci ed modern world.
