ANTH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Primatology, Empirical Evidence, Tabula Rasa

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH101
• Professor: Roe Peter

Document Summary

Ideology: field work, primary data/sociology, longterm, linguistically competent, participant/ observer (emic- your understanding, etic- outsider understanding, methodological relativism vs. ethnocentrism, comparing their ideas to your own, field methods. Ultimate wealth=sons: shaman- the medical/spiritual specialist with direct contact with the supernatural hekura, headman- the village leader in tribal society, fieldwork, establish rapport (tolerance, not friendship, give services (medical, basics- asprin, trade goods, basic- small items. Don"t delocalize: rabinow, first contact- european- richard ibrahim, friends- ben mohammed. Informants/consultants- ali marginal man and malik typical man : typical anthropologist agenda, contact, demography, genealogy, map of village, household inventory, map of landscape, map old village sites and movement, conduct ethnonistonical resources, the anthropological conundrum. Individuals interacting more among themselves than with others: endures beyond the life-span of any individual member. Tradition: communication and messages=intended, information=inferred, call systems=closed, only elements (no rules, natural languages, meta-communications, framing, pheromones-smell/chemical compound ex.