ANTA02H3 Lecture 2: week 2 reading.docx
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Ethnography - to understand people you must associate and integrate with them over a long period of time participant observation . Primitive societies - small, non western communities with limited and simple institutions where face to face interaction take places. An ethnographer may come across other social disputes that he/she is not there to study. Making friends in society and building strong relationships and trust of people can help answer some questions or explain certain situations. Understanding local culture and comparing it to our own can really indicate what it means to be human. Anthropologists are always anthropologists of something and somewhere (acquires history and background info. Prior to study i. e. fluency in more than one language) Ways to record info by ethnographers include: conversations, audio, film , photography, music. Hard to leave given society because not sure if full research has been completed.