Understanding Cultural Anthropology: Key Concepts and Definitions
Ethnocentrism
Refers to judging other cultures using own cultural standards.
Ego
Individual who is the central and starting point in kinship studies, that allows marking the origin of a specific genealogy and set the name of the remaining relatives.
Empathy
Understand the other person’s perspective.
Cultural Anthropology
“The learned set of traditions and lifestyles, socially acquired, of the members of a society, including their patterned, repetitive ways of thinking, feeling and acting (their behavior)
Read MoreConcept of education
Why would we want to plan courses and lessons?
There are a number of reasons why we would want to plan our courses and lessons, including the following:
• Thinking things through before you teach helps to reduce feelings of uncertainty or panic and inspires you instead with a sense of confidence and clarity.
• It can inspire confidence in students who pick up a feeling of purpose, progression and coherence.
• It helps you to understand what research you need to do.
• Makes it easier for
Read MoreLanguage and Communication: A Comprehensive Overview
Introduction
Language is an essential and characteristic part of being human. Children all over the world begin to speak at the same age and follow the same learning pattern because all languages have a similar basic structure. Languages are what human beings mainly use for communication.
The new social demands of a world in continuous expansion where the relationships between individuals, countries, agencies, and corporations become more frequent and closer have produced a change in the conception
Read MoreUnderstanding the Anthropocene: Promise, Pitfalls, and Environmental Justice
1. What is the Anthropocene? NIXON 2014 The Anthropocene: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea
Nixon details the Anthropocene: Advanced by Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and ecologist Eugene Stoermer in 2000.
- They argued that the Holocene was history: the Earth had entered a new, unprecedented geological epoch, triggered by human actions.
- We have decisively altered the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the rate of extinction.
People that believe Anthropocene is a potentially
Read MoreHarari’s Insights on Community, Civilization, and Nationalism
Chapter 5 — Community
On tech addiction and how it is compromising genuine human connection and community, Harari makes the point that it is easier than ever to talk to his cousin in Switzerland but it is harder to talk to his husband over breakfast because he constantly looks at his smartphone instead of at him.
Chapter 6 — Civilization
10,000 years ago, humankind was divided into countless isolated tribes where we knew no more than a few dozen people. With each passing millennium, these tribes
Read Moresciencee
Weather refers to the general condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place on a day-to-day basis. One good example is today is sunny, but later this afternoon it rained. Then, it is very windy this evening. So, weather is changing day to day or even hour to hour.
- Latitude