Week 1 Overview
Topic
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Goals
By the end of this week you will know be able to:
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- Define general anthropology and its four fields and their goals and approaches.
- Explain what is distinctive about cultural anthropology compared to the other three fields of anthropology and in comparison to some other disciplines.
- Define the concept of cultural relativism and assess its strengths and limitations.
- List the three key debates in cultural anthropology and be able to analyze an issue from each side of the debates.
- Discuss approaches to defining the concept of culture.
- Define what microcultures are and on what bases they are formed; provide examples.
- Discuss the relevance of cultural anthropology for the contemporary world.
- Recognize the links between cultural anthropology and careers.
- Discuss the culture of the San people of southern Africa and contemporary challenges they are facing.
- Recognize and locate the places that appear in the maps in this chapter and know something about their social characteristics.
Weekly Schedule
| Due date | Activity |
| Reading:
Introduction
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| Due Jan 31 | Assignment: 'If I were an anthropologist...' |
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