ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Anthropology, Emic And Etic, Participant Observation
10 Dec 2020
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Anthro is a young discipline that studies the diversity of human kind and its manifestations texture of everyday life rather than with broad generalizations and studies of tendencies. How to make sense of the world in which they live. Studies the way in which ppl are in the world. Has started as a discipline that focused on the study of small case societies, often. Exotic ones located in very far away places. Hoping to get to details in ppls lives, observed them participants observations. Far away places chosen bc it is linked to the history of the disc and to its intellectual takes place during field work premise. Also linked to the personal history of the anthropologists themselves. Now many anthros are studying closer to home and often, at home. Very often location of research becomes secondary to the topic itself and to the theoretical questions one presumes. The goals of general anthropology and its four fields.
