ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Raw Footage, The Ax Fight, Cockfight
5 Oct 2017
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Anth 202 lecture 3 ways of anthropological knowing. Less is more: because he knew less, he captured more since he"s not tuning anything out, allows you to be less jaded, very attuned to everything around him (ex. Takes us elsewhere to learn about ourselves: through what disturbs us, brings us to a larger knowledge. Is the film about them or is it something to help us then: otherness in anthropology. Lack of words, this weirdness, respect for that difference: tendency to fit in, anthropology allows us to see outside of this. Gary larson: anthropologist, comic artist the far side, comic of natives trying to hide their modern tech when anthropologists come, we as anthropologists don"t like to see similarities, we like otherness. Meant as an introduction to how anthropology sets out to learn. 2 questions: what are setting out to know, how do we do that, how do we do that:
