Anthropology 2A Cultural Anthropology
... This is where our modern thoughts of linearity come from. In Western Society, time is like an arrow, experienced as breach, innovation and change – we are seen to always improve on what came before. The Europeans of the Enlightenment saw themselves at the pinnacle of evolution. (The era right before ...
... This is where our modern thoughts of linearity come from. In Western Society, time is like an arrow, experienced as breach, innovation and change – we are seen to always improve on what came before. The Europeans of the Enlightenment saw themselves at the pinnacle of evolution. (The era right before ...
Field work techniques Ethnography (ethnographers)
... Life Histories - Personal history of an individual - Can give insight into perceptions - Usually collect several life histories to get more balanced information Ethnographers produce ethnographies –reports on their ethnographic work - Ethnographic realism—use etic approach to get scientific, objecti ...
... Life Histories - Personal history of an individual - Can give insight into perceptions - Usually collect several life histories to get more balanced information Ethnographers produce ethnographies –reports on their ethnographic work - Ethnographic realism—use etic approach to get scientific, objecti ...
Lia*s Story
... • Founding father of anthropology • 1896 - First professor of anthropology • First to use “Culture” as a synonym for civilization ...
... • Founding father of anthropology • 1896 - First professor of anthropology • First to use “Culture” as a synonym for civilization ...
Course Objectives
... Collect information from different types of written sources. Present a synthesis of the data they collect in the form of written and/or oral presentations. Incorporate a cultural relativistic perspective into all course work. Demonstrate how the biocultural model is integral to understanding the wor ...
... Collect information from different types of written sources. Present a synthesis of the data they collect in the form of written and/or oral presentations. Incorporate a cultural relativistic perspective into all course work. Demonstrate how the biocultural model is integral to understanding the wor ...
Chapter 4, Studying Culture: Approaches And Methods
... Compare the cultures to determine which are the simplest and most complex. Classify the cultures into stages of development. ...
... Compare the cultures to determine which are the simplest and most complex. Classify the cultures into stages of development. ...
2008.10.6 Lecture Slide
... Anthropology began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as a comparative science; although its first practitioners were not fieldworkers, fieldwork and ethnography soon became its defining characteristics. ...
... Anthropology began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as a comparative science; although its first practitioners were not fieldworkers, fieldwork and ethnography soon became its defining characteristics. ...
Introduction to Anthropology
... accept that there are some basic human natural behaviors—a hard wiring—but that these are overlain by cultural behaviors Task of anthropology are the same as any science, but also deals with human values ...
... accept that there are some basic human natural behaviors—a hard wiring—but that these are overlain by cultural behaviors Task of anthropology are the same as any science, but also deals with human values ...
Bronislaw Malinowski 1884
... ---was born in Krakow, Poland on April 7, 1884 and became influential in British anthropology and is the founder of Functionalism. His first field study came in 1915-18 (Trobriand Islanders of New Guinea in the southwest Pacific). He used a holistic approach in studying the native’s social interacti ...
... ---was born in Krakow, Poland on April 7, 1884 and became influential in British anthropology and is the founder of Functionalism. His first field study came in 1915-18 (Trobriand Islanders of New Guinea in the southwest Pacific). He used a holistic approach in studying the native’s social interacti ...
On the Concept of Culture
... life-way or life-style of a group of people. It consists of the patterned, repetitive ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that are characteristic of the members of a particular society or segment of society” (Harris 1975, ...
... life-way or life-style of a group of people. It consists of the patterned, repetitive ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that are characteristic of the members of a particular society or segment of society” (Harris 1975, ...
Anthropology
... socialization, social control, political organization, class, ethnicity, gender, religion, and culture change ...
... socialization, social control, political organization, class, ethnicity, gender, religion, and culture change ...
Anthropology 2A Cultural Anthropology
... This is where our modern thoughts of linearity come from. In Western Society, time is like an arrow, experienced as breach, innovation and change – we are seen to always improve on what came before. The Europeans of the Enlightenment saw themselves at the pinnacle of evolution. (The era right befo ...
... This is where our modern thoughts of linearity come from. In Western Society, time is like an arrow, experienced as breach, innovation and change – we are seen to always improve on what came before. The Europeans of the Enlightenment saw themselves at the pinnacle of evolution. (The era right befo ...
Anthropology 2A Cultural Anthropology
... This is where our modern thoughts of linearity come from. In Western Society, time is like an arrow, experienced as breach, innovation and change – we are seen to always improve on what came before. The Europeans of the Enlightenment saw themselves at the pinnacle of evolution. (The era right befo ...
... This is where our modern thoughts of linearity come from. In Western Society, time is like an arrow, experienced as breach, innovation and change – we are seen to always improve on what came before. The Europeans of the Enlightenment saw themselves at the pinnacle of evolution. (The era right befo ...
indigenous people - Bakersfield College
... Transnational culture of consumption • Contemporary global culture is driven by flows of people, technology, finance, information, and ideology ...
... Transnational culture of consumption • Contemporary global culture is driven by flows of people, technology, finance, information, and ideology ...
Chandana Mathur
... It is true that there has historically been an unequal power relationship between anthropologists and their “subjects”, as the Writing Culture critique points out. But can it be solved stylistically, by the crafting of “new ethnographies”? ...
... It is true that there has historically been an unequal power relationship between anthropologists and their “subjects”, as the Writing Culture critique points out. But can it be solved stylistically, by the crafting of “new ethnographies”? ...
Anth - UCSB Anthropology
... – Suspension of value judgment for the purpose of study • Tool for understanding logic of behavior ...
... – Suspension of value judgment for the purpose of study • Tool for understanding logic of behavior ...
Cultural Anthropology
... of human cultures in different environmental, political and historical contexts. It is all too common to experience instances of shock, puzzlement, confusion, or disapproval when confronted by different customs and practices of people who do not share our own culture. Curiosity is often the result o ...
... of human cultures in different environmental, political and historical contexts. It is all too common to experience instances of shock, puzzlement, confusion, or disapproval when confronted by different customs and practices of people who do not share our own culture. Curiosity is often the result o ...
Cultural Anthropology`s big names
... • Provided a classic definition of culture that is still valid • Key theorist in the anthropology of religion ...
... • Provided a classic definition of culture that is still valid • Key theorist in the anthropology of religion ...