Lecture 1: What is Anthropology?

Question 1

What is culture

Answer 1

Differences in behaviour, custom, cognition, belief, values, attitude, morals and language

Question 2

Culture is not only related to ethnicity and gender, but also to …

Answer 2

age, religion, sexual orientation and disability

Question 3

What is cultural anthropology?

Answer 3

the experience of cultural difference

Question 4

What does anthropology?

Answer 4

it gives access to an accumulated, extensive, formalised, scientific, institutionalized and rigorous way of thinking

Question 5

What does ‘holistic’ mean?

Answer 5

study of the whole of the human condition – past, present, and future: society, language and culture

Question 6

Ethnography

Answer 6

fieldwork in a particular culture: provides an account of that community, society or culture

Question 7

Ethnology

Answer 7

comparative, cross-cultural study of ethnographic data, society and culture

Question 8

What is the goal of cultural anthropology?

Answer 8

to describe, interpret and possibly explain the cultural customs and events that have been observed

Question 9

Multi-disciplinarity

Answer 9

at crossroads of a variety of disciplines (economics, social geography, political science etc.)

Question 10

Multilevel

Answer 10

studies development issues at different scales (individuals, communities, countries)

Question 11

Diagnosis and (policy) prescriptions

Answer 11

addresses both positive (why) and normative questions (what should we do about it)

Question 12

Main points of development studies

Answer 12

Multi-disciplinarity

Multilevel

Diagnosis- and (policy) prescriptions

Political engagement

Question 13

Political engagement

Answer 13

reflected in goal of promoting social change that is emancipatory and inclusive