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Anthropological approaches:  Holistic approach(as a whole)  Comparative and interdisciplinary(similarities and differences)  Relativism and reflexive(relativism is not judging other based on self culture and reflexivity is the presence of self in a community and self in a community)  Culture as a way of seeing and acting. Distinctive feature of Cultural anthropology:  Ethnography: a writing about culture based on first hand immersion in to the life way., beliefs and practices of the people.(autography written by a man in the culture)  Ethnology: comparative study between culture

Distinctive feature of cultural anthropology:  Practicing Cultural relativism  Avoiding Ethnocentrism  Valuing and sustaining cultural diversity

Importance of cultural relativism:  Problem with absolute cultural relativism(homeless and car asking)  Critical cultural relativism Key theoretical debates in cultural anthropology:  Biological determination vs Cultural constructionism Biological determinist are priority to genes and hormones for understanding human behaviour.(behaviour) Cultural constructionist explains beliefs as a product of culturally shaped learning within a language culture.(beliefs) Key theoretical debates in Cultural anthropology  Cultural materialism vs interpretivism Cultural materialism explains culture as constrained and constructed according to geographic, climate and subsistence and economic practices. Interpretivists Substratism  British social anthropology(Groups+similarities) Individual agency  American cultural agency(indivisual+differences)...