9/3/2013Recitation 1Anthropology: the study of people in groups (societies or cultures)•Comparative: interpreting own culture by comparing it to other cultures•Particularist: examine things with a known context without any assumptions•related to cultural relativism- evaluating subject matter on its own terms (using knowledge from the people who are using it themselvesHolistic Discipline•Four-Field Approach•branches necessary looking at the difference of scale over broad periods of timeFranz Boaz•Became interested in linguistic anthropology•under the impression that old civilizations were going to die out (arrogant and be-lieved by many anthropologists)•culture relativism is...•the way people act•traditions•behaviors•religion/beliefs•interaction•judging without open to various perspectives•being civilized is...•be governed by governing system•laws•confined•uniformity•The State•citizenship•sedentism•the ability of reading and writingModern Anthropologists•tools they use•fieldwork: involves a participant and observation•immersion in other POV’s•richness of experience for the ability to explain•provides depth to explain in different language or material•Ethnography: a form of a
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