ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pastoralism, Phonology, Lewis H. Morgan
9 Dec 2014
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Cultural anthropology: study of culture, comes into being by our capacity to create meaning (eg. bathroom signs, we created that meaning) Cannibal tours (movie: examples ethnocentrism, use of primitive b. Inputting their lifestyle (vegetating: bikini woman; relaxing and yet accusing indigenous of being too relaxed and not. Anywhere where there is people/culture (not geology landscape: fieldwork, talking, forming conclusion, researching, purpose. Activities that are done in the field to answer a research question. How do anthropologists go about their research to find their answers. Live like a normal member of the community adapt to grasp a better understanding of the way the live: adapting/adopting features of life. Practicalities: produces lots of data, produces lots of data. Behaviour: bring to light obvious/visible behaviours, non-verbal behaviours, explicitly aware of what"s going on around us awareness, hard to record information, exhausting always on duty, intensively involved.
