SOCI 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Haitian Creole, Baffin Island, Ethnography
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Anthropology: study of human; the study of what it means to be human . Culture: a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behaviour, artifacts and institutions that are created, learned and shared by a group of people. Familiarization/ strange-ification: making the strange familiar and the familiar strange (novails) Cultural relativism: you never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it harper lee, to kill a. Emic (insider, experiential view)+ etic (bird"s eye comparative): form of classification. Fieldwork + ethnography: immersion, long-term residence, language proficiency, and participant observation. Human creativity (unpredictable, highly diverse as important as human rationality) Volk: idea of people unified by language (not by stare or monarchy) -germaneness as something made not born; moving away from biology. E. g. people started thinking of themselves as belonging to a nation . Established 1st dept. of anthology in north america, at columbia university.
