ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Class Consciousness, Nuance Communications, Participant Observation
Document Summary
Pop-culture version of anthropology for entertainment as well as education: non-academic purposes. Several faux-anthropology concepts (cultural grammar, rules, reflexes), faux-anthro methods. A kind of mock-scientific thoroughness about it (online review: she is not aiming for truly anthro but for breath big picture, making fun of english, herself, and anthro. Watching the english is written with an insider"s knowledge, but from an outsider"s perspective. (sirc) Responses/reviews vary widely at times appear to prove her point! Important to remember her tone ( chicklittish according to the guardian) is an attempt to demonstrate her argument by using her own writing style as a case-in-point of englishness. Participant observation we all do it, but some of us take notes - ellen pader. Fox motto we are all people watching but she is taking notes from the inside. Book is pop anthro the style of the book is actually part of her argument : style = informality; very silly meta-cognition on englishness.
