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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

Ethnography Description

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Ethics