Anthropological scientific studies have extensively grown within the last 30 years, though; it is still fairly new to understanding the elements of all the different cultures the world has to offer. Colonialism has provided substantial starting point and has acted as a base for anthropologists’ views and concepts. Anthropology and colonialism have always gone hand in hand when examining the beginnings of societies and cultures. Colonialism offers and clear understanding of policy and practices that can acquire up to full political control over the country itself or other countries, it focus on those who have settled on the land and have created the base foundations of utilizing the land in which they have settled for economic power and growth.
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In relation to the early colonialism in Brazil, the ways in which the British, Spanish, and Portuguese invaded the early populations of Brazil perfectly highlight the ethnocentric attitude due to their inabilities to recognizing and acknowledging the already formed culture that had been previously established by the natives of the land. Instead they diminished it and began developing a culture of their own. They had no context of cultural relativity, the ability to appreciate diversity and other ways and forms of …show more content…
He saw race as a biological concept to understanding human behavior and biological characteristics. Margaret Mead, also an import figure in modern cultural American Anthropologist, she saw and studied the ideas and attitudes of gender and the cultural influences that different cultures had practiced them. Due to her strong efforts and passion for understanding this cultural anthropology ideology, Mead was a leading figure in extending the essential characteristics and customs of societies and communities during her time. Mead became a standing influential figure in the 1960s sexual revolution which was a social movement that challenged the – as seen prior to – and traditional ways of behavior that were related to a persons sexuality and interpersonal
In relation to the early colonialism in Brazil, the ways in which the British, Spanish, and Portuguese invaded the early populations of Brazil perfectly highlight the ethnocentric attitude due to their inabilities to recognizing and acknowledging the already formed culture that had been previously established by the natives of the land. Instead they diminished it and began developing a culture of their own. They had no context of cultural relativity, the ability to appreciate diversity and other ways and forms of …show more content…
He saw race as a biological concept to understanding human behavior and biological characteristics. Margaret Mead, also an import figure in modern cultural American Anthropologist, she saw and studied the ideas and attitudes of gender and the cultural influences that different cultures had practiced them. Due to her strong efforts and passion for understanding this cultural anthropology ideology, Mead was a leading figure in extending the essential characteristics and customs of societies and communities during her time. Mead became a standing influential figure in the 1960s sexual revolution which was a social movement that challenged the – as seen prior to – and traditional ways of behavior that were related to a persons sexuality and interpersonal