ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prehistoric Archaeology, Margaret Mead, 2008 Australian Football International Cup
17 Feb 2015
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A humanistic discipline that studies the diversity of human kind in its cultural manifestations (focuses on meanings rather than measurements, texture of everyday life rather than generalizations) Started with a focus on small-scale societies, uncovering details of peoples lives though sustained contact known as participant observation, which is conducted during fieldwork. Going to faraway places is linked to the discipline"s history and intellectual premises as well as to the anthropologists" own history and interests . Many anthropologists now study closer to home or at home as the reasons for choosing a field site have changed and the site itself may feed into the topic and theoretical questions that one selects. Frederic errington, professor of anthropology, trinity college , connecticut, tell us how they became anthropologists, and why they decided to carry out research in papua new guinea, a country located in the southwest pacific, north of australia.
