ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnocentrism
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The belief that one"s own culture is the way of life and everything is inferior or superior. Don"t judge another culture by own culture"s standards. Recorded by dr. carie little hersh meant to explore work of anthropologists around the world and get into understanding some of humans controversial issues. Study pretty much everything from politics to medicine question the familiar and why doesn"t it feel the same way to others. Interviewing dr. jenks an anthropologist in california about job and four subfields biological anthropology. Ask questions on how me evolved, where did we change, how do we adapt to environments look at fossil records and dna sequencing. Study of the path so they work with material remains linguistic anthropology. Study of language and communication-- how has it changed history, and structure of languages. How does language reveal popper relations (who gets to talk and it what ways) cultural anthropology. Lots of religion, family, art, medicine, politics (the girl is cultural anthropologist)
