ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology

The study of man's culture and his developments, achievements, customs, beliefs, and language.

Anthrope

Meaning "man"

Logia

Meaning "study"

Cultural Universal

Patterns of similarity within an array of differences

Cultural Diversity

A range of different societies of people of different origins, religions, and traditions all living and interacting together.

-Physical

-Cultural

-Linguistic

-Archeology

4 branches of anthropology

Physical

Focuses on humans as biological organisms; faces evolutionary and biological variation

Cultural

Focuses on the study of human societies and culture, and their development

Linguistic

Human language and very deal with the description or a language

Archeology

The study of human culture through the recovery and analysis

Age of Discovery

Missionary documentaries and age of exploration

Ethnography

Research design or method used to observe environment

Multiculturalism

Existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within fixed boundaries. You understand but not necessarily follow.

Ethnocentrism

Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture. Culture is superior than others.

Cultural Relativism

The position that there is no universal standard to measure cultures by, and that all cultural values and beliefs must be understood relative to their cultural context, and not judged based on outside norms and values.

Henry Otley Beyer

-Proposed Wave Migration Theory

-Taught first anthropology course at

UP

F. Landa Jocano

-Extensive research on Filipino prehistory and cultural heritage.

-He authored numerous books, including (1) "The Philippines at the Spanish Contact" , (2) "Philippine

Prehistory: An Anthropological

Overview" , (3) "Hinilawod"

Ponciano L. Bennagen

-Helped draft Indigenous People's Rights Act of 1997 (IPRA Law)

-Co-founded The Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao Inc. (UGAT)

Etic

-Outsider's view; non-member

-Observe, measure, analyze

-Controlled and systematic

Emic

-Insider's view; part of the system

-Subjective

-Considers cultural, social, historical