ANTH 1003 Chapter : Anthropology Chapter One
Document Summary
The field can be anywhere: linguistic anthropology, physical or biological anthropology, archaeology. Human nature is not instinctive but biocultural . Concept of culture: core anthropological concept, beliefs, practices, values, culture/ cultures ( society focuses more on institutions) Ethnocentrism opposite of cultural relativism thinking one culture is better than other. Cultural relativism (not absence of ethics!) meaning that one culture is not better than another culture just different. Points of view, world views, ways of living, etc. Learned: shared, patterned, dynamic, adaptive, symbolic- ex: flags, purple and gold, normative- overt/ tacit things that you know because you have been told (overt) ex: don"t pick your nose. Things that you just know and you don"t have to be told (tacit) ex: how guys stand. Integrated- all of the parts fit together, things are connective. Goals of cultural anthropology: make the familiar strange and the strange familiar, ethnography- fieldwork and description, etic- outsider"s perspective, emic- insider"s perspective, ethnology- comparison for universals.
