ANTA02H3 Lecture : lecture notes for lectures 1 through 10!
13 Dec 2010
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Anthropologists for the most part live among the people that they are studying. I t is comparative but you don"t rank. www. notesolution. com. Slightly more elaborately, learned sets of ideas and behaviours that are acquired and shared by members of a society. Field work is basically is what sets anthropologist apart from other disciplines. Anthropologists for the most part live among the people that they are www. notesolution. com studying. Field work is a rite of passage and it turns you into an anthropologist. You cannot call yourself an anthropologist until you do field work. Ethnography is what anthropologists write after they do their field work. The books we are using in this course is based on field work. The point is to portray a native"s culture point of view. Geertz gives so many examples and paints such a vivid picture. Thick description (geertz) is many different layers and what this is meant to do but to give you context.
