ANTH-UA 1 Study Guide - Case Report, Ethnology, Ethnography
21 Oct 2014
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Outline: terms, williams, tylor, kuper, boas, malinowski, mead, mauss, derrida, bourdieu, ongka"s big moka, durkheim, turner, myerhoff. Ethnography is research designed to explore cultural phenomena. An ethnography is a means to represent graphically and in writing, the culture of a group. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group. The typical ethnography is a holistic study which includes a brief history, and an analysis of the terrain, climate, and habitat. In all cases, it should be reflexive, make a substantial contribution toward the understanding of the social life of humans, have an aesthetic impact on the reader, and express a credible reality. It observes the world from the point of view of the subject (not the participant ethnographer) and records all observed behavior and describes all symbol- meaning relations using concepts that avoid causal explanations.
