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The social life of _____ refers to the changing meanings and significance that objects take on over years, decades, and even centuries
The study of people's communities, behaviors, beliefs, and institutions, including how people make meaning as they live, work, and play together. Agency. The potential power of individuals and groups to contest cultural norms, values, mental maps of reality, symbols, institutions, and structures of power.
Salvage Paradigm. The paradigm that holds that its important to observe indigenous ways of life, interview elders, and assemble collections of objects made and used by indigenous people. Cultural Anthropology. The study of social lives of living communities.
Anthropology is an incredibly broad discipline, covering the entire scope of human experience, but its enormity is controlled by a common narrative and set of three central commitments. The common narrative states that human beings have developed flexible biological and social features that have worked together in a wide variety of ...
Chapter 1 Notes challenge of anthropology: to understand the rich diversity of human life & to see how our particular life experiences connect to those of others by bringing these perspectives together, we can grasp more fully the totality & potential of human life global web of interaction anthropology provides a unique set of tools ...
Cultural Anthropology Chapters 1-4. The study of the full scope of human diversity, past and present, and the application of that knowledge to help people of different backgrounds better understand one another.
Multi-faceted discipline: Anthropology is distinguished because it is: o Holistic: various dimensions of human life o Comparative: relationships, similarities and differences o Dynamic: we are biocultural organisms – change over time. Four major interrelated sub-specialties: 1. Biological Anthropology 2. Archaeology 3.
