ANT 10CD Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Culture Shock, Emic And Etic, Human Relations Area Files
6 Nov 2015
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: a detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork. : the study and analysis of different cultures from a comparative point of view. Urgent/salvage anthropology: ethnographic research that documents endangered cultures is known as urgent anthropology (or salvage ethnography) Acculturation studies: acculturation intensive firsthand contact with a more powerful society. : massive culture change that occurs in a society when it experiences: margaret mead pioneered the study of acculturation in her 1932 study of the omaha. Applied anthropology: the use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems in communities confronting new challenges. Culture at a distance : study of cultures secondhand through the analysis of newspapers, photographs, and films, sought to determine the national character of people living in distant lands. Peasant studies: peasantry represents the largest social category of our species so far. They fall into a category between modern industrial society and traditional subsistence foragers, herders, farmers, and fishers.
