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Field Notes for Week 1 Brianna Ramirez Nightingale College ANT 300: Cultural Anthropology January 14, 2024

Field Notes for Week 1 Day 1 In this week's discussion I learned that the way we view culture is different than how the definition is. I view culture as food we eat, clothing, religion, language and tradition. After reading and learning about culture it refers to the ways of thinking and behaving by different groups of people. I also learned that culture is a way of living from knowledge and beliefs. I also learned that Ethnocentrism and culture relativism both revolve around culture. Ethnocentrism compares other cultures by using specific cultures as the basis of compares. Culture relativism believes that culture is understood best by its own people. Ethnocentric attitudes affect us in cross situations. When we fail to listen to others why their culture of beliefs is better than your own. I also learned that you cannot judge biased of own beliefs. Working in health care we are going to come across many different people and cultures. It is best to keep to oneself and not judge or say what or how you view something. You must think of the patient's best interests. Day 2 In the reading this week we learned that anthropology is the study of everything. It is also the thing that makes us human. Anthropology helps us find out why and how we have our ancestors. Cultural anthropologists are the ones who study the similarities and differences of the cultures of what are the same and what is the difference. We also read what culture is. We read that culture is what shapes our views, behaviors and relationships. No matter where we go, different cultures are everywhere. Biological anthropology is where they study human origins. They compare or focus on the closet living species compared to humans and monkeys. Biological anthropology also focuses on our extinct species. They study the bones and fossils that were left behind. I also read archaeologists focus on material things. They go to places where they can dig up and find some remains. Linguistic anthropology is the study of the language. Which is amazing is the different languages of the different cultures. Then applied anthropology helps with problem solving. I also read an example in the culture concept that Bob had described about the language and how he realized that language helps with culture identity. I saw that Bob was going to ask someone their thoughts about what culture is. I also read how others may tell a story to teach a lesson to young people. These are great examples of sharing what others have been through so the next generation does not encounter that. Anthropologists are the main storytellers to express other cultural details. Also doing field work as a antropolgist helps others understand the cultural

experience from other cultures. It makes you open your eyes to see what they have gone through or what they are going through. Day 3 At work I discussed with a couple of coworkers about anthropology. One of our students was telling me that he enjoyed studying anthropology. He made me really think differently about the course and want to know more about the study. He was telling me about how there is comparison of monkeys to humans. I learned quite a bit from him for barley starting this course and made me more interested. I also spoke with one of my coworkers about how we view culture. After doing our discussion I asked her what her input was about culture. She described to me what she does as part of her culture. She told me that for Christmas she usually does Mexican food as a tradition. It made me open my eyes because what my family does for Christmas is we make what we call American food like steak and shrimp. I loved how we could compare our views of what we do for our culture. I also spoke with another coworker about how the way we view culture is different than the definition. We spoke about how when we were in school, we were able to go find fossils. I asked her if she ever went to the mountain to dig them up. I remember being in 5 th grade having that ability to do so. It was fun and something that was very cool. I think the things we found we thought to be dinosaur bones. At that age, we did not know what they were. . Day 4 After my first week learning on this course, I am curious to learn more about the different cultures. I am curious to learn the way anthropologists describe language and communication within cultures. I think it will also be interesting to learn about the different cultural families and marriage processes. I also would like to know the different races and ethnicity of this course and not just based on what or how we view these things. I am also very curious to learn about the religion and how others will treat and heal any type of diseases because I have heard that different religions and different cultures have differences on how to cure or get help with medicine. This course is going to be awesome to get knowledge of how everything and everyone views differently. I think that this course is going to help with my knowledge and help me become a amazing nurse to see the different viewpoints of others when it comes to their own treatment within medicine.

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References Medeiros, P., & Cowall, E. (2020). The culture concept. In N. Brown, T. McIlwraith, & L. Tubelle de Gonzalez (Eds.), Perspectives: An open introduction to cultural anthropology (2nd ed., pp. 29-44). American Anthropological Association. Nelson, K. (2020). Doing fieldwork: Methods in cultural anthropology. In N. Brown, T. McIlwraith, & L. Tubelle de Gonzalez (Eds.), Perspectives: An open introduction to cultural anthropology (2nd ed., pp. 45-69). American Anthropological Association. Nelson, K., & Braff, L. (2020). Introduction to anthropology. In N. Brown, T. McIlwraith, & L. Tubelle de Gonzalez (eds.), Perspecrtives: An open introduction to cultural anthropology (2nd ed., pp. 3-28). American Anthropological Association.

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