SOCANTH2: KEY CONCEPTS

Question 1

What is the study of Anthropology?

Ethics = ___ + real lives

what bigger and fundamental questions are asked?

Answer 1

The study of real lives and understanding how people re-enact their lives.

Involving questions of ethics because we engage theories into real lives

Considering: how do societies and cultures change and evolve over time?

Question 2

what are the different possibilities that anthropology could be?

there’s five!

Answer 2

• ethnographic representation?
• embracing the unfamiliar?
• the studying of people, culture or society?
• analytical tool for making the world a better/worse place?
• research for marketing purposes?

Question 3

who (historically) does anthropology and studies culture (at present)?

Answer 3

Historically, a field predominated by white males, however increasing in diversity.
- must be critical and not dismissive of socio-political and econocmical limitations and considerations that prevent devleopments/opportunities within anthropological research.

Question 4

link between sociological thinking and anthropology:

Answer 4

anthropological thinking is never detached from the sociological mind in the time frame or the environment of where the anthropologist is situated/living in.

Question 5

notable findings from Edward Said.

Answer 5

Orientalism (1978) - classic anthropological journal.
- found the concept of considering the anthropological “other”.
- finding that the critique of culture brought home anthropology and the way cultures are perceived and represented.