ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emic And Etic, Ik People, The Forest People
10 Apr 2018
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Nov 16 ethnography: wade davis, the wayfinders, 2009, napoleon chagnon, noble savages, controversial, early ethnographers got started from anthro, rock art, field research/ethnography, study of social life in a natural setting, observing people in their lives. Lengthy immersion in a cultural field: social/cultural anthro, participant observation, monograph is the way the research is produced, principles, ethics are important. Intensive lengthy fieldwork: commits to fully understand a group from their perspective, applied his functionalist theory to the trobriand islands, malinowskian ethnography. Intensive fieldwork and the revolutionary paradigm of structural functionalist theory: posthumous publication of diaries. Interested in the institutions, not so much the people. Introduction of outside objects (guns, cigarettes, alcohol, steel axes for stone ages australians: advocacy, one is not supposed to be an advocate, but just watch, bias, misrepresentation, the authoritative voice. Informant shows him their hunting places, how they survive.
