ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Participant Observation, Emic And Etic, Ethnocentrism
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Might influence the people around you (if they know you are watching them) Perspectives on information (insider vs. outsider dilemma) What people within a group think about their own lives/culture. The view of what is really going on from the expert"s perspective. Emic and etic come from the study of linguistics / language. Phonetic the study of the sounds of all human language. How different languages use all the sounds. Phonemics the study of the sounds in a particular language. Social world is ordered, patterned, governed my rules. Hard to measure human behaviour (not in a lab) All cultures pass through the same stages of development. Through time, even the most primitive people become civilized. Civilization agriculture, industrial capitalism, monogamy, monotheism (christianity) Barbarism horticulture, patrilineal, polygamy, metal tools, polytheism. Savagery fire, hunting, stone tools, matrilineal, group marriages, animism. Franz boas german jew (if you were wondering) Each culture has its own particular (unique) history.
