ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Research Question, Maisin Language, Centrism

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

Document Summary

Cannibal tours: ethnocentrism, ethnocentrism, tourism + anthropology, bikini, cholesterol, ethnocentrism, primitive. Methods: field, anywhere, anywhere there are people, field work, work done in field, activities done in field with purpose of answering a research question, arrival stories, barker"s arrival among the maisin, research question (field, field work) Impacts of christianity on maisin beliefs: participant observation, participating in and observing the activities of participants in the field, live in and study another culture over a long period of time, process of learning. Involvement in the daily activities and routines of participants in field: adapting and adopting the many features of life, long term activity produces a lot of data (notes) Behaviours: observations, visible behaviours, non-verbal, explicit awareness. Practices: lots of data, hard to record, exhausting. Behaviours: subtle behaviours, hard to answer why, bias empathy, become part of the scene, empathy. Cultural understanding: context of activities, focus on things of local importance.