Anthropology Cultures Psychology 
Anthropology for Beginners
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresses the idea that the beliefs and practices of others are best understood in the light of the particular cultures in which they are found. Most societies are not relativist: they view their own ways as good, other people's as bad, inferior, or immoral a form of ETHNOCENTRISM.
Teaching Anthropology
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective. Human hygiene is taken as an example.
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Anthropology for Beginners
JANUARY 3, 2021
In classical sense society refers to a group of people who share a common ‘culture’, occupy a particular territorial area and feel themselves to constitute a unified and distinct entity (Frisby and Sayer 1986). In this sense, society may denote the group’s population, its institutions and relations, or its culture and ideology.
Teaching Anthropology
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The interview assignment encouraged them to see anthropology in conversation with their own families.
Anthropology for Beginners
AUGUST 17, 2023
By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. The two concepts are often combined in anthropological writings and they have a close and complex historical relationship. Ethnology and ethnography developed, of course, dialectically.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 3, 2024
By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic.
Anthropology for Beginners
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Worldview Worldview is the set of cultural and psychological beliefs held by members of a particular culture; the term was borrowed from the German Weltanschauung. In Redfield’s book The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941), he expressed an embryonic concern with the concept of world view.
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