ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Participant Observation, Iconicity, Ethnography
9 Dec 2016
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What kinds of mehods in anth to collect info: - participant observation, this is an empirical based field. Also a subjective field because we bring our own culture & background with us. B) forgetting enables us to function as humans answer. A) humanity suffers because it cannot remember things perfectly. Science ficition metaphor for how anth changes you. Relfection on differences, to focus attention back on ourselves. This makes the link between humanity and our animal nature. Riddle relates to a way that people question where nature/culture/humanity ends/begins. Margaret meade: samoa, use understanding of adolescent female culture to reflect back on american life. Sought out primitive societies to better understand complex questions. In robotics, the closer they seem to humans the more it makes us feel strange. Also related to strange and familiar that produces a felling of the uncanny. There is a tendency for our understanding of others to be limited by our own frameworks of reference.
