Introduction
to
ANTHROPOLOGY
, Clad
What is
anthropology
? →
dropwas +
hops (
knowledge about
humans )
&
anthropologists nowadays interested in
change
and
longer attempt to describe culture
'
in its
totality
'
are no a .
¥
* human centered
doing ethnographic
④ takes insiders perspective ② ③ Anthropology focuses
Studies
Society from below (f- helicopter view ) fieldwork on
groups
④ Holistic & ⑤ Interdisciplinary ⑥ Cross
contextual
④ Makes the
Strange familiar &
Cultural
the
familiar
strange .
Anthropology Studies :
human ?
→
What makes us
•
How humans adapt to the environment ?
→
How do to their lives ?
people give meaning
What
objects & they use them?
→
do how do
people make
→
How do see themselves and others ?
people
→
Relations of &
power euterlependaney
How shape it?
→ and how do
a re we
shaped by the environment we
(self determination)
-
Ethnocentrism vs . Cultural Relativism
judging people from 's
→
seeing ,
one →
understanding a
societyor culture
own
vantage point & describing on its own terms
them in one 's own ter ms
Nanda & Warms Cpgb)
[ Most people are ethnocentric ,
but ehthnocenticism of wealthy & powerful
has had less
consequences than that of smaller
technologically
societies
greater ,
Jadvanced ,
and more
geographically
isolated peoples .
to
ANTHROPOLOGY
, Clad
What is
anthropology
? →
dropwas +
hops (
knowledge about
humans )
&
anthropologists nowadays interested in
change
and
longer attempt to describe culture
'
in its
totality
'
are no a .
¥
* human centered
doing ethnographic
④ takes insiders perspective ② ③ Anthropology focuses
Studies
Society from below (f- helicopter view ) fieldwork on
groups
④ Holistic & ⑤ Interdisciplinary ⑥ Cross
contextual
④ Makes the
Strange familiar &
Cultural
the
familiar
strange .
Anthropology Studies :
human ?
→
What makes us
•
How humans adapt to the environment ?
→
How do to their lives ?
people give meaning
What
objects & they use them?
→
do how do
people make
→
How do see themselves and others ?
people
→
Relations of &
power euterlependaney
How shape it?
→ and how do
a re we
shaped by the environment we
(self determination)
-
Ethnocentrism vs . Cultural Relativism
judging people from 's
→
seeing ,
one →
understanding a
societyor culture
own
vantage point & describing on its own terms
them in one 's own ter ms
Nanda & Warms Cpgb)
[ Most people are ethnocentric ,
but ehthnocenticism of wealthy & powerful
has had less
consequences than that of smaller
technologically
societies
greater ,
Jadvanced ,
and more
geographically
isolated peoples .
