Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Video: Anthropology and It's Subfields

The point of this video is to convey the four aspects of contemporary ethnographic anthropology using John Marshall's film from the 1950's to explain the broadness of the topic.  Cultural, Physical, Archaeological, and Linguistic are the different components of anthropological studies, as demonstrated with the Ju/'hoansi people.  Their ways of living are studied and reported through Marshall's self-immersion into an entirely different culture, and the results of his reporting actually consequentially hurts the tribe due to globalization and greed from those seeking to exploit the naive nature of lesser educated people.  The video discusses results of globalization, such as the spread of information, education, and healthcare.  This change in cultural tides creates conflict almost always, and delineates the backbone of strong different cultures by blending them together.

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