Final Definitions
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Goal: understand the whole of human existence (holistic)
4 field method
Biological
Social/cultural
Archaeology
Linguistics
Emic vs. etic
Emic (inside)
Etic (outside)
Fanz Boaz- father of Amer. Anthropology
1911: Study of immigrant skull sizes
Limitations:
Change over time, can't record everything
Bias
Change brought about by anthropology presence
Benefits:
Make positive change
Develop better communication & understanding
Understand human past
Preserve culture
Identify problems
Post-modernism: reaction to modernism
Bias prevents ultimate clarity
Race: not a valid scientific category
Tacit-things there are no words for, ideas, concepts
Explicit-tangible objects, clothes, things you can see, buildings
Culture: set of beliefs
Language
Learned characteristics
Shared
All-encompassing
adaptive
Culture shock
Ethnocentrism: belief that one culture is better than another
Cultural relativism: no culture should be judged by another
Human rights vs. cultural rights
Human rights: rights everyone should have merely by being human
Cultural rights: rights cultures have to practice their own belief system
Diffusion: changes through contact with other people
Acculturation: imposition of changes on another culture
Independent invention: self explanatory
Globalization: spread of ideas across the planet