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 # ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology
-**Welcome to anthropology!** This class is one of two introductory units in anthropology at the University of Sydney. This section of the //Anthrocyclopaedia// is provided as a supplement to the university sites and online resources for this class. On the pages here, you will find a guide to the class and lecture outlines from Ryan's lectures. All of your writing assignments, other assignments, and the quizzes for lecture are submitted using the class [[http://canvas.sydney.edu.au|Canvas]] site.
+**Welcome to anthropology!** This is a special supplementary site for //[[1001:2020:start|ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology]]//. ANTH 1001 is one of two introductory units in anthropology at the University of Sydney. This section of the //Anthrocyclopaedia// is provided as a supplement to the university sites and online resources for this class. On the pages here, you will find a guide to the class and lecture outlines from Ryan's lectures. All of your writing assignments, other assignments, and the quizzes for lecture are submitted using the class [[http://canvas.sydney.edu.au|Canvas]] site. Here is an overview of the class:
-## What is the class about?
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-Anthropology is unlike any other social science. It is part science, and part art. Anthropologists wish to observe human beings and their social patterns, but we also want to step into the shoes of another person and see the world from that person's point of view.
+## What is anthropology?
-Today, there are many problems and issues which affect all societies and people everywhere. We can say that the most important social problems are global in nature. If that's true, then they also affect people in different cultures, each of whom sees the world and other people in a distinct way. Therefore, you cannot understand contemporary trends from a single culture's point of view. The world needs anthropology and anthropologists, namely you.
+Anthropology is unlike any other social science. It is part science, and part art. Anthropologists wish to observe human beings and their social patterns, but we also want to step into the shoes of another person and see the world from that person's point of view. In this way, anthropology straddles what Snow (2017 [1959]) calls the "two cultures"---science and the humanities---of scholarship. We seek to understand people's ways of life, their actions and behaviors in the real world by collecting first-hand, empirical information about what people do every day. Yet we also argue that to understand why people live the ways they do, and why humanity is so wonderfully diverse and why it is always changing in unexpected ways, we have to understand how people think about themselves, their experiences, their relationships, and their larger world, and especially what meaning their life has for them.
-In this class, Ryan and Jadran want to argue that people are incomplete without the input from their social environment which determines how they see themselves, how they see other people, what they think is right and wrong, and what the purpose of their own lives are. This has two important aspects to it. First, there is no one single way to be human because humans are products of their particular cultures. Second, no person is an island; every person is part of a community of other people, and this community is held together and made into a system through the worldview that people in this community share, and which they transmit to the next generation. Human beings are defined by their diversity, but that diversity shows us that there are universals, specifically the capacity to acquire cultural patterns of thought and action, and the capacity to participate in a culture as a system.
+Today, there are many problems and issues which affect all societies and people everywhere. We can say that the most important social problems are global in nature. If that's true, then they also affect people in different cultures, each of whom sees the world and other people in a distinct way. Therefore, you cannot understand contemporary trends from a single culture's point of view. The world needs anthropology and anthropologists, namely you.
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 For Semester 1, 2020, the University of Sydney anthropology department has created a new format for this class, based on the successful model of //[[1002:start|ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world]]//, which runs in Sem 2. We will work through four three-week modules on different topics that introduce you to the study of culture, cultural difference, and the main perspectives in anthropology as a social science.
+## Ryan's tutorials
+[[1001:2020:tutorials:2|Week 2]]
+## Reference
+Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (1959).
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