Cultural Anthropology
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Anthropology provides window to the past, a mirror for our present and a lens to look at the future.
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Subfields
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Biological
(Physical) Paleo anthropology
Applied Forensic |
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Archaeology
Classical
Cultural Resource
Management
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Cultural
Ethnocentrism Apply ones own cultural values in judging the behavior
and beliefs of people raised in other cultures. There are three levels of ethnocentrism: a positive one, a negative one, and an extreme negative one. The positive definition defines ethnocentrism as "the point of view that one's own way of life is to be preferred to all others". There is nothing wrong with such feelings, for "it characterizes the way most individuals feel about their own cultures, whether or not they verbalize their feeling" . It is ethnocentrism that which gives people their sense of peoplehood, group identity, and place in historyall of which are valuable traits to possess. Ethnocentrism becomes negative when "one's own group becomes the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it" . It reaches its extreme negative form when "a more powerful group not only imposes its rule on another, but actively depreciates the things they hold to be of value" . Apartheid, the holocaust, and the genocide of the American Indian are all examples of this third level of ethnocentrism.
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Can one eliminate Ethnocentrism?
Tribal names usually translate as " the people"
where as the names they have for others are not
Observation
Sociology vs Anthroplogy Change vs understand Particiapant Observers
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