What Is Anthropology? Intro to Anthro 2021

Book: https://amzn.to/3HNAKHL (commissions earned)
Updated: https://youtu.be/cwktxYWWp5I
A first "What is Anthropology?" class: https://www.livinganthropologically.com/variability-of-humankind/what-it-means-to-be-human/ #anthropology #WhatIsAnthropology
Trouillot's https://amzn.to/3aIeD9I "Anthropology and the Savage Slot" is important to introduce anthropology from the very first class.
The big answer to this question is that anthropology “is a scholarly discipline that aims to describe in the broadest possible sense what it means to be human” (Lavenda and Schultz 2021, 5). But things might get confusing from there!

0:00 Introduction
2:21 Anthropology explores what it means to be human
9:03 Founding issues of comparative anthropology
16:16 Anthropology is born from colonialism
21:25 European/US Anthropology asked: Why are They like that? "Anthropology & the Savage Slot" (Trouillot)
27:51 Anthropology eventually says: Culture
34:10 North American anthropology becomes four fields
39:22 Recapturing the "promise of anthropology"
44:56 Applying Anthropology - Applied Anthropology
47:44 Anthropology must mean something beyond academe