ANTH 24010 - Introduction to Anthropology

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Anthropology

Description:

Social and cultural anthropology (or ethnology) is the discipline of human and social sciences that works on the detailed knowledge of singular cultures and on the comparison of cultures. Historically, ethnology started by studying so-called "primitive" societies. It has progressively expanded its investigations to western societies: the rural world, then all groups or social phenomena that tended to manifest an original culture. In the end, it is always the "modern" society that is questioned through a sideways glance at "l'autre différent": claim to superiority, standardization of behaviors, disappearance of cultures... As much for its perspective, privileged objects, observation methods as for its theoretical approaches, social and cultural anthropology is a simultaneously independent and complimentary discipline to other human sciences. The objectives of this course are to supply general knowledge of social and cultural anthropology: history, methods, major themes, principal concepts, to discover the cultural relativity of "the ways of doing of thinking and of feeling" and to allow each student to question his/her own cultural roots and to initiate the process of taking a necessary distance in order to understand "l'autre différent".

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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