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ANTHROPOLOGICAL

PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF

Understanding The Self

INTRODUCTION

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ANTHROPOLOGY

-studies human as both -Biological

and Social Creatures.

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ANTHROPOLOGY

-Ethnic Groupings and Geologic

Locations.

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ARCHEOLOGY

Examines the remains of ancient and historical human populations to promote an understanding of how humans adapted to their environment and developed.

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CULTURAL

ANTHROPOLOGY

Promote to study of asociety’s culture through their belief systems, practices, and possessions.

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PHYSICAL

ANTHROPOLOGY

Looks into the Biological

Development of

Humans and their

contemporary variation.

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APPLIED

ANTHROPOLOGY

Attempts to solve

contemporary problems

through the application of

theories and approaches

of the discipline.

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

• In 1939, he began to make ethnographic expeditions to Mato Grosso and the Amazon. This experience marked the beginning of his most important work: structural anthropology.
• One of the culminating points of his career was the publication of Tristes Tropiques, which is widely considered to be one of the most important books of the 20th century.

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

• He also wrote Race and History, Myth and

Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture, and

the Mythology series.

• He died in 2009 at the age of 100

PHILIPPE BOURGOIS

• He’s leading the ethnographic component of the Center for Social Medicine’s new initiative documenting the interface between mental illness, poverty, incarceration, homelessness, and racism in Los Angeles.
• fieldwork began in Central America in 1979 (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama) documenting the revolutionary movements and political

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