ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Roman Jakobson, Cultural Anthropology, Dream Interpretation
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Fieldwork is only getting individual opinions di cult to get the views of a culture as a whole through individuals. Found out through man that there is a speci c love ritual. Get bark from a tree, bile from a woman, some of your mucous and saliva. Then magic will cause the woman to love you. After a few months, grinker noticed no one else mentioned this ritual. Asked the man about it: said he made it up because grinker kept asking questions about body uids and the man wanted to make him happy. Example of how bias can create bad data. Need to see facts that make sense relative to each other (as a whole) and not relative to speci c individuals this is how patterns are found. Freud said that he was less interested in any speci c patient, more interested in what a speci c patient could tell him about the human mind as a whole.
