Summary: Introduction To Cultural Anthropology

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• 1. Anthropology: comparison and context

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• How does Claude Levi-Strauss describes anthropology?

  Anthropology has humanity as object of its research, but unlike other human sciences, it tries to understand its object through its most diverse manifestations

• How does Geertz defines culture?

  As an integrated whole, a puzzle where all the pieces were at hand, and as a system of meanings that was largely shared by a popolation

• How can you describe the relation between culture and society?

  Culture: refers to the acquired, cognitive aspects of existence
  
  Society: Refers to the social organizatiion of human life, patterns of interaction and power relations

• What is culture relativism?

  An indispensable and unquestionable theoretical premis, and methodological rule-of-thumb in our attempts to understand other societies in an as unprejudiced way as possible.
  
  This is based on the idea that there is no standard for right and wrong. Every statement which is made about right or wrong is a product of society. Every human opinion on morality or ethics comes from the cultural perspective of each human being
  
  Does not mean there is no difference between right and wrong   

• Where can culture relativism, in extremes, lead to?

  Nihilism: an extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence or meaning of existence

• Why can't culture relativism be seen as the opposite of ethnocentrism?

  It does not in itself contain a moral principle .

• What does anthropology research?

  She tries to understand the connection within the society and between societies

• What is the definition of cultural anthropology?

  The human being as central, trying to understand in which way humans are unique and how we are all the same

• 1.1 An outline of the subject

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• What does Cultural Anthropology mean?

  Knowledge about cultivated humans; knowledge of aspects of humankind which are not natural, but related to what is required

• 1.3 The problem of Ethnocentrism

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• What should you do to judge about the quality of a life within a 'foreigner' society?

  Know the culture from within