Cultural Anthro & Human diversity Wk 1

Anthropology

Anthropology

The study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds understand each other.

Applied Anthropology

Applying knowledge to social issues and world problems

Culture

The shared beliefs, practices, and symbols of a group of people that are learned and unconscious.

Ethnography

The writing of other cultures

Ethnographic fieldwork

Immersing yourself within the culture by living with the community over an extended period

Ethnocentrism

Using your own personal cultural norms as a means of comparison of other’s cultural beliefs/practices

Holism

Cultural relativism

Time-space compression

Flexible accumulation

Increasing migration

Uneven development

4 lenses of anthro

Biology, archaeology, linguistic, cultural

6 characteristics of culture