was browsing through jobs though that had a high job outlook and stumbled upon Social Anthropology. I had never heard of this career and didn’t really know what it meant. After doing more research and “googling”‚ I realized that this job consisted of all the things I had always been curious about. I never really understood other societies or why people behaved the way they did. I know now that anthropology has so many more components to it than the social aspect of it‚ but that is the main reason
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Anthropology as a Western Discipline Ambrose Bierce‚ the esteemed American satirist of the early 1900’s‚ defined in his Devil’s Dictionary the word “Aboriginies” as “n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize” (1). The overtly “western” view aptly captured by Bierce in his description exemplifies the field of anthropology and the methods it employed for quite some time—starting from the period of Antiquity until
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Marshall Sahlins’ has a quote that we stand on the shoulders of giants to shit on their heads reflects the idea of paradigm shift. The shoulders personify the collective knowledge of those researchers before us‚ as students it is where we gain our information. It is not through our own work that we initially study our respective fields; we study the accumulation of work that those giants have codified. The shit represents new ideas‚ criticism‚ and reworking of the previously held beliefs. The
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television series‚ I have always been a fan of the series Bones which is about forensic archaeology and forensic anthropology. In the show‚ the main character Dr Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who not only helps the FBI to crack murder cases‚ but also studies human remains of ancient times or victims of genocide. This show had deepened my understanding of the profession of anthropology and its strong connection to narrative. In Season 8 Episode 11 “The Archaeologist in the Cocoon”‚ other
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Scientific Racism is several types of science techniques and hypothesis that was used to prove a belief in a racial superiority for Whites. They used anthropology (human physical characteristics)‚ anthropometry (measurements of the body)‚ and craniometry (measurements of the head) to explain the makeup Black people. Black shame is when Blacks feel shame for their selves or other Blacks. They feel like they are not good enough or want to be a different race because they are not happy with being Black
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ANTH 1002: Introducing Anthropology Week 11 Lecture Plan 1. What is naturalisation? · Social stratification or inequality is invariably maintained by a process which anthropologists (and others) term naturalisation. By naturalisation we mean that hierarchy comes to be seen as ‘natural’ and therefore as being beyond question. · In other words‚ naturalisation results in inequality being seen as emanating from something outside society or social/political processes
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Anthropology 2A Concepts & Terms Final Exam Macro & Local Levels of Social Analysis Imperialism - Scientific Racism - Unilinear Social Evolutionism - Social Darwinism Colonialism Imperialism & the Postcolonial World 3 Waves of European Colonial Expansion (& Japan) “Development” Intervention Philosophies Profit and the Colonies Power & Representations Slave Trade Blackbirding Conscription Capitalist World System - Core‚ Semiperiphery‚ Periphery Colonial Strategies
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Social Anthropology Essay. How would you summarize Clifford Geertz’s contribution to the field of anthropology? Clifford Geertz I have chosen this essay on Geertz‚ as the information I received in class I found interesting and wanted to elaborate on the knowledge I already had. In this essay‚ I will be discussing Geertz’s contributions to anthropology‚ and what I have interpreted these contributions as myself. When looking at Geertz’s ideas and theories in Anthropology‚ some of these ideas and
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Anthropology – Study of Human Diversity - the four subfields of anthropology Cultural anthropologists: ethnography… based on field work Archaeologists: material remains Biological: diversity thru time and space Language: now language to learn past Earnest Hooton: Physical anthropologist Black racist… said closer to primates than whites. caucazoid‚ mongloid‚ negroid Culture Traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs; distinctly human; transmitted through learning. |
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This paper seeks to examine the cultural aspects of health and why medical anthropologists emphasize the need for local knowledge of culture to critically tackle human health. Medical anthropology is one of the major subfields of anthropology. It aims to understand the factors that influences health including biological and socio-cultural factors. The job of medical anthropologist is to determine the cultural aspects of diagnosis and disease treatment. In essence‚ there are three major arguments
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