Dr.Iveta Pirgova Exam 1 Anthropology Anthropologist use unique perspectives in order to judge a specific culture‚ and approach the studies of cultures using Cultural Relativism and Ethnocentrism. The definition of these terms is very different in many ways when describing cultures. Cultural Relativism is defined as the perspective that any aspect of a culture must be viewed and evaluated within the context of that culture. While‚ ethnocentrism‚ is defined as making value judgments based on
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“Dancing Skeleton” is one of the most significant and most effective ethnic studied that has been made by the Katherine A. Dettwyler. In this book‚ the writer has worked for explaining the situation critical condition of different children that are facing the problems of malnutrition that has disturbed the health conditions of different children. In this book‚ the writer has provided his persona account and personal observations that she made during her ethnographic research in different areas of
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Carib and Arawak of the Antilles. The paper describes the typical Western ideal for oral cleanliness‚ as well as providing an outside view on hospital-care and on psychiatry. Miner’s article became a popular work‚ reprinted in many introductory anthropology and sociology textbooks. It is also given as an example of process analysis in The Bedford Reader‚ a literature textbook. The article itself received the most reprint permission requests of any article in American Anthropologist‚ but has become
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watches a documentary to learn about an unfamiliar culture‚ particularly distant cultures‚ often the information has been gathered and studied by an anthropologist. As defined by Merriam-Webster‚ anthropology is the study of humankind‚ their culture and how they react with their environment (Anthropology‚ n.d.). In Horace Miner’s essay about the Nacirema people‚ he observes a culture who is on the extreme end of human behavior (Harvey & Allard‚ 2015‚ p. 14-17). The term Nacirema is used as a literary
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Although a fictionalized book‚ it clearly and accurately describes the challenges and perils of being an inexperienced Anthropologist. The book starts out with Anderson introducing her studies in school and how she was really interested in African anthropology and submitted papers to do a year of fieldwork in Africa. She later found out that she was pregnant and withdrew
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Professor: Lori Barkley Anthropology 101 November 27th 2012 A Deeper Look into Ravens Symbolic Meaning to the Inuit: Contextual Analysis of Indigenous Mythology Raven was an incredible animal to the Native North American Inuit culture; he was extremely symbolic in many ways. One of the most important things Raven could do was transform; he was the barrier of magic to many‚ being able to transform could bring happiness to everyone. The Inuit culture believed that Raven could heal many due to his
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society are seen as being created and reproduced by the ways in which people make‚ design‚ and interact with objects. The word material in material culture refers to a broad range of objects. Understandings of material culture has been central to anthropology since its inception; during the late 19th and early 20th century anthropologists primarily collected material culture (Kroeber‚ Boas: 1896-1905) that was displayed in museums in Europe and North America. Daniel Miller has called for “an independent
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we are trying to understand. By doing this we come up with conclusions that are based on our belief system‚ and not on whatever we are studying. Spradley starts of the article by stating that “Ethnographic fieldwork is the hallmark of cultural anthropology.” He then states the vast amount of ways that ethnographers collect their data when trying to understand a culture. Some of these activities consist of eating strange foods‚ learning a new language‚ observing play‚ interviewing individuals
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from their point of view. This is cultural relativism‚ the notion that the members of a culture and their actions should be looked at from their own perspective as a culture. To make this more relatable‚ I look at how I live my everyday life as a non-religious white woman in the United States‚ if I were to be judged off the standards of a religious Muslim woman I would miss the mark by far and be looked at negatively. This is where the difficulty in anthropology comes in. Anthropologists
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be discussed more thoroughly in later chapters. A more in depth look was taken at the influences of western cultural‚ anthropological research of the Maisin people and their cultural activities‚ both of which Barker and Anne took part in. During these activities Barker becomes enthralled with the creation of Tapa‚ once his wife is presented her own shortly after arriving in Uiaku. The cultural meaning behind this traditional cloth and its importance to the identity of the Maisin people is of great
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