ANTH 1150 Lecture 2: Week 2.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Tad Mc Ilwraith

Document Summary

Perspectives on data emic and etic: emic insiders view, you as a member of a group and your perspective on your group, subjective, particular perspective (maisin, tahltan, ethnography, phonemic sounds of particular languages, phenomenology individuals attach meaning to their own actions, there is not one social reality for all of us, particular, unique, etic outsiders view, researcher, scientist, expert"s view, a theoretical perspective, analytical framework, comparisons, objective, general perspective, hedican"s book economics, families, politics, religion, ethnology, phonetic sounds of all human languages, positivism social world is patterned, governed by laws, real world, objective, clearly documented, there can be little debate about the real world, the world is how i describe it, measured, general and the regular, we need both emic and etic, theories in anthropology. Cultural evolution: dead white men: herbert spencer and eb tyler(culture is everything shared within a group, one path of cultural evolution, for cultural change, stages of cultural development, tyler labeled savagery > barbarianism > civility.