ANTH 1150 Lecture 2: ANTH 1150 Lecture 2 Jan 12
9 Feb 2017
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Cultural anthropology: participant observation, deep hanging out. What is ethnocentrism: judge other people and the way they live on your own experiences, values and standards. Cultural relativism: opposite of ethnocentrism, an intellectual antidote, an effort to understand others in terms of their own values, experiences and standards. Absolute cultural relativity: no questioning or judgmental. Tyler (19th century: definition 1871, culture is complex whole. Is a set of learned values: bumper sticker definition. Culture is everything people have, think and do: characteristics of culture. Symbol is something that stands for something else. Bakers ethnography: maisin (group of people, uiaku (place, papua new guinea, 2 stories. The a(cid:374)thropologist"s stor(cid:455: central metaphore -> tapa cloth. Cannibal tours: duty, desperation, desire, devotion (religion) De(cid:374)(cid:374)is o"rorck: river cruise, search for the exotic. What is meant by the world field: place, location, environment, people. What is field work: work done in the field, research methods, 1st hand experience. Papua new guinea: village, 2 research questions.
