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Anthropology
Literally “the Study of man”, a field concerned with culture. Holistic and comparative, organized into sub fields, participant observation, ethnography
Holistic
Deals with total variety of human experiences, tries to see experience as a whole, not parts.
Comparative
Interested in all types of society
Biological (physical) anthropology
Concerned with humans as biological organisms, studies evolution of human species and development in its compactly for culture
Archaeology
Study of human past through physical remains
Linguistics
Studies structures and use of human languages and their relationship to cultures
Cultural anthropology
Studies cultural variation in human thought and behavior through space and time includes how culture influences relations between women and men
Culture
A Peoples Way Of Life
Principal contribution of anthropology to academic thought, holistic and comparative
Participant observation and ethnography
Participant observation
Not only observe, but participate, live w/ members for 1 yr+ constant movement between insider and outsider perspectives
Ethnography
Description of a group of phenomena that can be critiqued or compared
Sex
Physical or biological differences between a male and female-chromosomes, genetics, secondary sex characteristics
Gender
The meanings a society gives to traits which differentiate males from females
Nature/nurture
Not one or the other but both
Cultural relativism
Treating other people and cultures on their own terms, considering specific cultural practices in relation to larger culture
Ethnocentrism
Belief that ones own culture is the best, judging other cultures in relation to your own
Edward Tylor
Culture, or civilization… is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities acquired by man as a member of society.
Implies scale of savagery
"Civilization"
Victorian age customs
Victorian society
Industrial revolution and British colonialism, women consider housewives with not political importance, lower class often worked as maids or in factories
Patriarchy
Male rule
19th-century evolutionary anthropology
No methods of participant observation or ethnography.