Anthro 104

The Study Of human beings is...

Anthro is these 3 characteristics...

When you look at the big picture of whats going on around you, and understand it as a whole

You must look at human life from all angles, not just one aspect, in order to understand how it works.

Keeping an open mind, don't pre-judge things, you need to suspend your own judgement if you want to study humans, don't judge people just because they are different

Anthro is characterized by the "Four Field Approach", they are...

The study of past cultures. Trying to reconstruct what the past was like by putting together the pieces of their findings

Study of present day cultures observations and interviewing people Ethnography is used here.

Anthropological Linguistics

Study of human biology

Study of human evolution from fossil remains

Look at humans biology. look at the physical make -up of a population and what distinguishes them -disease -appearance -skin color -body shape

study of human and non human biology and behavior their similarities and differences

Refers to a particular profession ie. Doctors, Lawyers, and anthros all have their own... what?

Respect for other cultures, keeping an open mind, don't pre-judge

Judging other cultures by the values and standards of one's own culture, often associated with the belief that ones own culture is superior to other cultures and fails to understand that people do things differently

Dealing with another culture other than our own

Refers to traditional learned ways of thinking and acting. Shared by members of a society

process of learning to become a member of a society

Culture in its early stages. They are looking at symbols that the cultures use to communiate

To have an insiders point of view of their own culture

the outsiders point of view of ones culture

Helps you to have an emic perspective. Participate with them, interview, and research. You eat with them, live with them. you put yourself into the other mans shoes and empathize with them

a branch of philosophy that examines moral principals

distinction ppl make between right and wrong or good and bad behavior

Argues that if each society has its own ideas of right and wrong, then there are no universal moral standards and we must tolerate any behavior in other cultures no matter how we feel about them

Human rights pertain to the individual, not the whole group

Cultural Relativism was developed by

In 1215 [blank_start]King John[blank_end] of England signs the [blank_start]Magna Carta[blank_end]

Bill of Rights enacted by English Parliment in 1689 listing the basic rights and liberties

Bill of Rights - the first ten amendments of the constitution go into effect in what year?

world war 1 is during which time frame?

After the first world war, what is formed to promote world peace?

President Frank D Roosevelt, in his 1941 State of the Union address talks about four essential,l human freedoms: [blank_start]freedom of speech[blank_end], [blank_start]freedom of worship[blank_end], [blank_start]freedom from want[blank_end], and [blank_start]freedom from fear[blank_end]

The Charter of the United Nations is signed in June 1945 declaring the intentions to "reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights"

In 1966 the two treaties that were produced by the Human Rights Commission and together with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and comprised the International Bill of Human Rights were