ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Relativism, Emic And Etic, Fallacy
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Although anthropologists focus on making the familiar strange, people describe poetry as a means of de-familiarizing ourselves in which we take for granted. Other disciplines beyond literature have focused on this discipline of making the familiar strange. Both the familiar and the strange are central to anthropology. The way in which anthropologists link the familiar and the strange, describe them, move back and forth between them, are at the heart of the anthropological perspective. Ethnography is used in at least two different senses: (1) the book; the product of anthropological research (e. g. the ethnography of brothels in. Mexico), and (2) the ethnographic method; the emersion of research of the lives and culture of people in order to comprehend the meaning they have of their existence. Anthropologists then to employ the strategy of defamiliarization as a technique of cultural critique. Through this profess, we as anthropologists hope to disrupt common sense presumptions.
