ANTA02H3 Lecture 2: lecture 2 notes
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Every culture should be seen passing through this phases magic, religion and rationality. They observed how people in these exotic places lived their lives but it was still from distance. They didn"t live among them directly thats what she is trying to emphasize here. Malinowski: participant observation where anthropologist fully participate in the culture and absorb as much information that is presented in the area. And also maintains as much distance as an outsider so that he/she can describe it from an outsider point of view. You learn it from other people from your culture culture is what make humans humans. Culture is more of a human thing to do. Humans are social animals: basically culture is like a lens. It focus on things that make world work: food is based on culture and the lens that it gives us. i. e eating honey larva for n. american is disgusting but not in other culture because it is edible.
