SOSA 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emic And Etic, Determinism, Ethnoecology

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Sociol & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1002
• Professor: Liesl Gambold

Document Summary

Readings: lee, the hunters and diamond, the worst mistake in the. Discussion: n!ai, a story of a !kung woman. The anthropologist spent a long time in the eld and the interview or the emic perspective of n!ai and the way she sees things. Earlier footage when n!ai was a child was a more traditional lifestyle and then as she grows, the way their lives work change as well. Students bring out how horrible it is to watch the hunting of gira e scene. They also distribute meat to everyone and women from other camps. Another commonly known as an upsetting idea was the marriage of n!ai; they think of it as a betrothal and women don"t want to be thin because it is thought of as unhealthy and di cult to get pregnant. Men have to prove themselves as providers.