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WEEK 1 - Anthropology
WEEK 1 - Anthropology
1. What is sociology?
2. What is its focus?
3. What is anthropology ?
4. What is the sphere of
anthropology?
Anthropology is one of the social
sciences
• It is closely related in various ways to sociology, psychology
and economics
Definitions and Focus
1) archaeology and
2) applied anthropology.
o Cuisine
• Some anthropologists regard society as an organism of its
own accord
• Franz Boas
• Bronislaw Malinowski
• [A. R. R. Radcliffe-Brown]
Qualitative study
Ethnography
Example:
Raymond Firth, Malay Fishermen
James Scott, Weapons of the weak
Sato Ikuya, Kamikaze Biker
Works of the Chicago School
o Franz Boas (1858-1941)
• His method was to sit tribal elders and collect data on cultural
traditions, and perhaps to have those traditions re-enacted for
him
• Marcel Mauss
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Margaret Mead
• Ruth Benedict
• Clyde Kluckhohn
• Alfred Kroeber
• Clifford Geertz
Conclusion
• Anthropology is one of the social sciences
• More specifically, it is the study of human differences, cultural
and biological, in the context of human nature