Thank you for making this available online. This is a very straightforward and accessible, even for high-school level, introductory lecture to anthropology. These days I am a working parent, with one child in college, but myself have never taken a course in anthropology - just intro social psychology - so I've never had a even a cursory understanding of this discipline. From what I can see here, and at this stage in my life, anthropology may yet turn out to be a more relevant area of interest to me than psychology has been so far.
Hi Linh, thanks so much for the comment! I'm so happy you are engaging with issues like this, even as you must be busy with work and parenting. I've tried to make things accessible and hopefully try to convey the potential importance of taking an anthropological approach. Welcome, and thank you again!
I haven’t graduated high school yet but I want to study anthropology in college as a major and I’m getting a head start by watching these videos! Thank you for uploading them
Thanks so much! There's an updated 2022 version here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cwktxYWWp5I.html and I'm hoping for even better in fall 2024. Good luck!
Thank you for keeping these lectures available to the public. I just purchased a copy of _Land of Open Graves_, but I was wondering if you could recommend a title about migration studies more generally as well?
Thanks! I think it would depend on whether you are interested in migration studies globally or specific to the United States. One thing that jumps to mind is the edited volume _The Shadow of the Wall_ which I mentioned here www.livinganthropologically.com/anthropology-on-immigration-the-aaa-general-statement/, might peruse for authors
@@LivingAnthropologically, I'm interested in migration studies globally. About a decade ago, I was reading a lot about late antiquity, and one of the points I remember was that our understanding of the period has been greatly influenced by developments in migration studies, so I'm hoping to find a primer that one might find assigned in a graduate (or upper-level undergraduate) class.
@@chassmith6778 Cool! Yeah, that's not really my area so I'll have to defer to others, but understanding migration in present and throughout human history is super-important to anthropology and our understanding of the world
For some videos specifically on social anthropology, check this playlist ru-vid.com/group/PLXilt7ebpnGhhri6ok6pec1D9ZUKOoGho&si=AiZnAbybBMIF0Ods or this one ru-vid.com/group/PLXilt7ebpnGh3BGyppI1ILt_PU4yZIPCx&si=IS7ZhnTSZ65x-VYq
I'm interested in the definition of Anthropology if I got right it is "What it means to be human?" How is Primatology considered part of Anthropology considering the definition above? Also, from the the general question of "what is Anthropology?" would you consider Muqaddimah Book by Ibn Khaldun 1377 AD and Herodotus: Histories (Even if it is mainly meant to be a history record) as Anthropology and why? it seems to me that the history of Anthropology at least by its definition goes way more back than colonial times. I'm also curios at why there are divisions between different regions when discussing the history and categories of Anthropology in a sense it feels to me like a humanitarian science that tries in principle at least to be universal yet ends up in the same situation that it tries to resolve. some form of anthro(pological)centricism. Maybe there is an extra sub branch of Anthropology that looks into how different regions / countries study and categorize anthropology. Maybe, we call it "meta-anthropology" XD
Thank you for the comment! This is very helpful and interesting. I'm actually trying to compose a short statement that addresses these issues for my Intro-to-Anthropology 2022 course, although in the meantime you might also check out some earlier thoughts on "When did Anthropology Begin?": www.livinganthropologically.com/how-did-anthropology-begin/ My feeling is that people everywhere are curious, and so there are always going to people doing something anthropological. Some of those have been formalized, and sadly we don't hear enough about other travelers, explorers, and chroniclers outside of the European-US context. That said, I am trying to get at the rise of anthropology as a formal, academic discipline, with publishing, peer-review, students, teachers, and all that. Academic anthropology is quite recent and very much involved in North Atlantic colonial endeavors (see also Anthropology and the Savage Slot, www.livinganthropologically.com/cultural-anthropology-2016/anthropology-and-the-savage-slot/) To the question of primatology--what it means to be human is also about human relationships to other species, particularly our closest relatives. There are some people who have looked at anthropology in different places. A recent and perhaps most enlightening example is doi.org/10.1111/aman.13670, "Blowing up 'the World' in World Anthropologies" by Penelope Papailias and Pamila Gupta.
@@LivingAnthropologically Thank you for the concrete reply! These are very good links that I will indeed dive deeper into. Also I appreciate the effort you put. It's one thing to upload a general video and another to have an entire course accessable to the public. Personally I believe that one way for us to go forward as humans is to make science as much accessible as possible. I'll definitely continue watching the course and ask more questions along the way :D
See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cwktxYWWp5I.html for an unmasked updated version. This video was recorded in a classroom, with students present, at the height of covid. We were all under a mask mandate
