ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emic And Etic, Salvage Ethnography, Thick Description
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European social anthropology and american cultural anthropology developed separately but belonged since 1950s. = concept of society - associate with others and from social groups. = exploring relationships (husband and wife, parents and children etc) = concept of cultural - way people express views and their world in symbolic forms (art and myths). Both the concepts often converged and complemented one another (e. g kinship - both social and also meaning values and beliefs) Ethnography is both research and product of that research that tells us about particular culture or society. Enlightenment- renewed focus on science and rationality, new scientific inventions taking place. = also said that culture and not biology made distinctions between people on earth. = all humankind has the ability to culture (psychic unity of humankind). = 3 stages of cultural development: savagery, barbarism, civilization. = based on the concept that all people will travel along the same evolutionary path.
