ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnology, Cultural Relativism, Thick Description
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They often share objects of study with other disciplines (the way of studying -> go out and live with the people who are studying aka field work) Ethnography is what anthropologists write up after their field work (analysis) they have to have some sort of theoretical analysis. Description is very important, so that the reader could understand and see the culture from the native point of view. Thick description-> describing the context (makes ethnographic analysis) Young discipline, anthropology has been around 125 years. Given the shape in the early 20th century. It"s related to history, geography, travel writing, philosophy. Victorian anthropology (early 20th century) -> influenced by darwin (origin of species) he defined culture in a way that it linked to victorian ideal civilization. Some people had more evolved culture than others. All cultures could be ranked according to him from least to most civilized (influenced by darwin).
