ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: The Ax Fight, Emic And Etic, Renato Rosaldo
25 Sep 2015
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Anth 202 - lecture 6 - the craft of anthropology part 2: etics & emics. Review sessions for this assignment are on oct. 1 and oct. 5 (optional) Don"t always get the answers you were looking for. Watch a video and note all anthropological observations. Fight started because a woman was beaten. One man runs to get ax, everyone gets agitated. Women, men bring more weapons (big sticks and machetes) Everyone is very close to fight, watching but also somewhat engaged. Men and women all have same haircut. A child draws a line in the ground. Afterwards, men joke around with their machetes imitating the fight with kids. The line drawn in the sand has no significance to the tribe, shows the layers of interpretation. Some describe it as a way to get what you want when other methods fail.
