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Learning ObjectivesAfter finishing this chapter, students should be able to understand:
- Understand the definitions of anthropology and culture.
- Understand the differences between cultural relativity and ethnocentrism.
- Understand the significance of the major characteristics, physical and cognitive, of homo sapiens and how they differ from earlier hominids.
- Know about the major anthropological theories of the late nineteenth century onwards.
- Understand how the metaphor of the "tapestry" applies to learning about culture.
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education