HUMS 1005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bronisław Malinowski, Ethnography, Participant Observation
26 Jun 2017
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Ability to notice events that often go unnoticed in the purview of other disciplines. Ability to describe and understand culture objectively. Ability to distance oneself from cultural bias. Established anthropology as the specialist discipline for knowledge of other cultures. Argonauts of the western paci c" is the rst published work of modern ethnography. The book is fundamental in establishing eldwork and participant observation as principles of anthropology. Aotwp states that rst of all, naturally, the student must possess real scienti c aims, and know the values and criteria of modern ethnography. Secondly, he ought to put himself in good conditions to work, that is in the main, to live without other white men, right among the natives. Finally, he has to apply a number of special methods of collecting, manipulating and xing his evidence. Demonstrated power of eld work and participant observation. Got stranded on papua new guinea during wwi.
