Anthropological Approach What is Anthropology Anthropology The study
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Anthropological Approach
What is Anthropology?
Anthropology The study (logos) of human beings (anthropos)
The aim of anthropology is to discover and explain the similarities and differences among human groups.
Specializations in Anthropology
Physical Anthropology
Physical anthropology This is the study of human kind from biological perspective. A major task of physical anthropology is to study the evolution of the human species over time and the biological processes involved in human adaptation.
Archaeology
Archaeology The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology This field studies human behavior that is learned, rather than genetically transmitted and that is typical of a particular human group. These learned and shared kinds of human behavior are called culture.
Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistic Anthropology Studies languages, which is more than just written or spoken; it includes any kind of pattern communication between people.
Concept Of Culture
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Culture is the customs, ideas, symbols, artifacts, and languages that human beings in groups share with and learn with one another.
Iceberg Model of Culture (Edward Hall: 1976)
Characteristic of culture • Culture is not the same as Nature
What about eating ? • What to eat • How to eat • When to eat • Where to eat
Then what about defecating? • Place of defecation • Defecating position • Variation of toilet • Use of toilet paper
Is ‘Space’ cultural ? • Public – Private • Proximity • Hierarchy
Japanese crowd avoiding eye contact
• Culture is learned
Enculturation • This is the process by which an individual absorbs the details of his or her particular culture, starting from birth.
• Culture is dynamic
Culture is constantly changing rather then remaining static Invention Diffusion
• Culture is Multiple
How to deal with the beliefs and behaviors that are different from my own? • Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism The tendency to view the world through the narrow lens of ones own culture or social position.
Cultural relativism • The idea that each culture must be understood in terms of the values and beliefs of that culture and should not be judged by the standard of another culture.
Critical cultural relativism • Offers an alternative view that poses questions about cultural practices and ideas in terms of who accepts them and why and who they might be harming or helping.
A different point of view is simply the view from a place where you are not
• Victory
• Defeat
Is it possible to see the world through the eyes of others?
Two crucial terms • Emic view • Etic view
Emic View • Refers to what insiders do and perceive about their culture. It included their perceptions of reality and their explanations for why they do what they do.
Etic view • Refer to the analytical framework and tools used by outsiders in searching for patterns of the insiders culture.
ETIC expression of EMIC views Medical Anthropology tries to explain the various ways in which people’s culture plays crucial roles in our health and wellbeing
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- Anthropology perspective
- Anthropological argument
- Orbitomeatal line
- Anthropological baseline
- Acanthion
- Anthropological background of bangladesh
- Anthropological social change
- Anthropological materialism
- Difference between virtual circuit and datagram network
- Cognitive approach vs behavioral approach
- International market selection
- Multiple approach avoidance conflict
- Cognitive approach vs behavioral approach
- Study approach meaning
- Traditional approach to systems implementation
- Deep learning approach and surface learning approach
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- Bổ thể
- Tỉ lệ cơ thể trẻ em
- Voi kéo gỗ như thế nào
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- Alleluia hat len nguoi oi
- Các môn thể thao bắt đầu bằng từ đua
- Thế nào là hệ số cao nhất
- Các châu lục và đại dương trên thế giới
- Công thức tính độ biến thiên đông lượng
- Trời xanh đây là của chúng ta thể thơ
- Cách giải mật thư tọa độ
- Làm thế nào để 102-1=99
- Phản ứng thế ankan
- Các châu lục và đại dương trên thế giới
- Thể thơ truyền thống
- Quá trình desamine hóa có thể tạo ra
- Một số thể thơ truyền thống
- Cái miệng nó xinh thế
- Vẽ hình chiếu vuông góc của vật thể sau
- Biện pháp chống mỏi cơ
- đặc điểm cơ thể của người tối cổ
- Thế nào là giọng cùng tên
- Vẽ hình chiếu đứng bằng cạnh của vật thể
- Vẽ hình chiếu vuông góc của vật thể sau
- Thẻ vin
- đại từ thay thế
- điện thế nghỉ
- Tư thế ngồi viết
- Diễn thế sinh thái là
- Dạng đột biến một nhiễm là
- Số nguyên là gì
- Tư thế ngồi viết
- Lời thề hippocrates
- Thiếu nhi thế giới liên hoan
- ưu thế lai là gì
- Khi nào hổ mẹ dạy hổ con săn mồi