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A distinctly human capacity to experience the
world as meaningful in ways that are shared
with others and transmitted over time.
Culture
Culture shapes social organization as well as
individual and collective practices.
Interdisciplinary
• Humanities and Sciences
• Comparative
• Holistic
Nature of the study of Anthropology
"Antrhopology is study of the full scope of human diversity, past, and present, and
the application of that knowledge to help people of diff backgrounds better
understand one another"
1. Archaeology (evidence of past)
2. Biological/Physical Anthropology (Human Biology)
3. Linguistic Anthropology
4. Cultural Anthropology
4 Subfields of Antrhopology
5. Applied Anthropology;
6.Public/activist Anthropology
• Social organization of human communities.
Cultural Anthropology • Social organization of meaning within those communities.
• Ways this organization varies across communities.
•Considerable overlap w/ sociocultural
anthropology.
Linguistic Anthropology
•Language; how they influence, circulate; ways language work
Biological/Physical Anthropology Human biology, diversity; study of evolution.
, •Long term historical perspective
•Evidence of social change over time
Archaeology + Socioculture Anthropology
•Evidence of shifting relations among societies
•Material remains are traces of culture, but not the same time
•Evidence of Evidence of evolutionary origin of humans
Biological Anthropology + Socioculture •Important evidence against race as a biological phenomenon
•Culture is not based in biology
•Formal vs. Informal
//Being `inside' a language •Gender Markers
•Vocabularies vary in different languages
Different languages reflect different ways of living in the world and different
//Linguistic Cont'd
languages affect the ways people live in the world.
•Social groups, social structures
Social Organization of Communities •Patterns of relationship
•Roles, ranks/stats, kinship
•"Abstract individual" Cultural anthropologists insist individuals are never "culture-
//Individual + Society
free." Always enmeshed in society and culture.
•Mediated experiences of the world (language)
//Social Organization of Meaning •Values, norms, standard, expectations (interrupting the lectures in Poland)
•Tacit knowledge (Unspoken rules that shape how others behave)
•Culture= Single or Plural?
//Organization Varies across Communities
•A pan- human capacity manifest differently in different human societies
Ethnocentrism •Evaluating others societies based on your own standards
//Relativism •Understanding other societies on their own terms
1.Studying a diversity of cultures to appreciate a common humanity.
//Two Paradoxa
2.Studying other societies to gain insight into your own.
•18th & 19th Century
•Intensification of trade and colonial relations
•Systematic efforts to make sense of unfamiliar societies
•Growth f natural sciences
//The Age of Enlightment
•Progress (Moderations) vs. Tradition
•Faith in accomplishments of science
• Industrial Revolution
•Secularization (Finding other non-bible) answers
Charles Darwin on the origin of species (1859); descent of man (1871)
//Evolution
Edward Burnett Taylor primitive culture (1871)
Unilineal Evolution
-naturalist/philosopher (1772-1842)
-Member of the society of the observers of man.
//Joseph Marie de Gerando
-Author of considerations on the methods to follow in the observation of savage
peoples.
-Societies ranked
-Unilineal evolution: Guided by "reason"
-Classification of isolated culture traits: Tools, kinship, subsistence practices, religion
//Evolutionist anthropology -Armchair ethnographers; correspondence with missionaries, explorers, colonial
administrators, etc. (view as sitting in armchair reading letters)
-Ethnocentric
-Etic (outside analysis) vs. emic (local meaning from inside culture
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African and Asian Studies - Unit 1 So... Sociology Quiz 3636728 ANT 160 Exam 1 anthrop
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A distinctly human capacity to experience the
world as meaningful in ways that are shared
with others and transmitted over time.
Culture
Culture shapes social organization as well as
individual and collective practices.
Interdisciplinary
• Humanities and Sciences
• Comparative
• Holistic
Nature of the study of Anthropology
"Antrhopology is study of the full scope of human diversity, past, and present, and
the application of that knowledge to help people of diff backgrounds better
understand one another"
1. Archaeology (evidence of past)
2. Biological/Physical Anthropology (Human Biology)
3. Linguistic Anthropology
4. Cultural Anthropology
4 Subfields of Antrhopology
5. Applied Anthropology;
6.Public/activist Anthropology
• Social organization of human communities.
Cultural Anthropology • Social organization of meaning within those communities.
• Ways this organization varies across communities.
•Considerable overlap w/ sociocultural
anthropology.
Linguistic Anthropology
•Language; how they influence, circulate; ways language work
Biological/Physical Anthropology Human biology, diversity; study of evolution.
, •Long term historical perspective
•Evidence of social change over time
Archaeology + Socioculture Anthropology
•Evidence of shifting relations among societies
•Material remains are traces of culture, but not the same time
•Evidence of Evidence of evolutionary origin of humans
Biological Anthropology + Socioculture •Important evidence against race as a biological phenomenon
•Culture is not based in biology
•Formal vs. Informal
//Being `inside' a language •Gender Markers
•Vocabularies vary in different languages
Different languages reflect different ways of living in the world and different
//Linguistic Cont'd
languages affect the ways people live in the world.
•Social groups, social structures
Social Organization of Communities •Patterns of relationship
•Roles, ranks/stats, kinship
•"Abstract individual" Cultural anthropologists insist individuals are never "culture-
//Individual + Society
free." Always enmeshed in society and culture.
•Mediated experiences of the world (language)
//Social Organization of Meaning •Values, norms, standard, expectations (interrupting the lectures in Poland)
•Tacit knowledge (Unspoken rules that shape how others behave)
•Culture= Single or Plural?
//Organization Varies across Communities
•A pan- human capacity manifest differently in different human societies
Ethnocentrism •Evaluating others societies based on your own standards
//Relativism •Understanding other societies on their own terms
1.Studying a diversity of cultures to appreciate a common humanity.
//Two Paradoxa
2.Studying other societies to gain insight into your own.
•18th & 19th Century
•Intensification of trade and colonial relations
•Systematic efforts to make sense of unfamiliar societies
•Growth f natural sciences
//The Age of Enlightment
•Progress (Moderations) vs. Tradition
•Faith in accomplishments of science
• Industrial Revolution
•Secularization (Finding other non-bible) answers
Charles Darwin on the origin of species (1859); descent of man (1871)
//Evolution
Edward Burnett Taylor primitive culture (1871)
Unilineal Evolution
-naturalist/philosopher (1772-1842)
-Member of the society of the observers of man.
//Joseph Marie de Gerando
-Author of considerations on the methods to follow in the observation of savage
peoples.
-Societies ranked
-Unilineal evolution: Guided by "reason"
-Classification of isolated culture traits: Tools, kinship, subsistence practices, religion
//Evolutionist anthropology -Armchair ethnographers; correspondence with missionaries, explorers, colonial
administrators, etc. (view as sitting in armchair reading letters)
-Ethnocentric
-Etic (outside analysis) vs. emic (local meaning from inside culture
