ANTH 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Patagonia Mountains, 4000 Miles, Participant Observation
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Anthropology: study of humans, culture, throughout time, across all places, broad definition. Culture is what we do, think, believe as part of a group. Try to grasp the insider point of view, this is this difference between anth and soci, the way research is done. Want to feel/think as members of society they are studying. Anthropologists; spend a long time in a society describing, explaining (ethnographers) Got stranded on island during war, looked at economic relations etc. Fieldwork created by him, participant observation, informants. Proper fieldwork; cut off from kind, as much contact with natives as possible, become part of daily lives, start conversation when bored, notes to describe not judge, holistic, inponderabilla of everyday life. America name is named after the cartographer who discovered it was a separate land, whole continent from canada to latin america. Us vs. others from north america, all countries speaking spanish/portuguese conquered by the spanish, created differences between north americans.