ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Franz Boas, Beck, Margaret Mead
21 Feb 2016
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Anth lecture 2: fieldwork: a meeting of cultural traditions. Don"t experiment on people, don"t go in with a hypothesis. Instead, they participate and observe the daily life of the place they are emerged in. Structured interviews: a method for gathering information whereby an anthropologist, or another researcher, asks a set of predetermined questions and records participants" responses. Participant observation: franz boas, bronislaw malinowski, maragaret mead. Positivism: the view that there is a reality out there that can be detected through the senses and that there is a single, appropriate scientific method for investigating that reality: controlled comparison. Objective knowledge: knowledge about reality that is absolute and true for all people, in all times and places. Subjective meaning: meaning that seems true to a particular person, based on his or her personal values, beliefs, opinions and assumptions. Intersubjective meaning: meanings achieved through dialogue and negotiation between researcher and informant.
