ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ethnography, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism
20 Apr 2016
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Highlights flexibility and adaptiveness of cultural systems, while identifying important power imbalances affecting people"s lives: focus was on trying to find a given society, staying there, using participant observation, to describe it and write about it (ethnography) Globalization and changing anthropological methods: multi-sited ethnographic research, use of internet and social media to contact and learn about diasporas, other dispersed social groups and subcultures. A people-centred, holistic approach to social change: focus on a group of people rather than institutions, looking at the many different perspectives/aspects (everything is inter-related) Respects value of diversity: awareness of ethnocentrism, unfounded cultural assumptions, culture-bound" theories, need for cultural relativism. How socio-cultural systems change over time: factors of change, impacts of different forces of change. Practical applications of anthropological research to real-world problems. New material (90 pts: 25 mc, 9 tf, 3 short answer (4 pts) Comprehensive material (30 pts: 6 mc, 5 tf, 3 short answer (6 pts)
