ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Magical Thinking, Salvage Ethnography, World War I
15 Apr 2012
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*tutorials begin next week - january 18-22, 2010. Will talk about the readings and get to ask questions. Ethnographies - written after fieldwork [context: based on their fieldwork, shorter, ethnographic bits" or chapters written instead of large books (i. e. deep play. Thick description - detailed, well explained (understand the context in a full descriptive way); layers. Understand the nuance of a context(to understand what certain things mean) i. e. a wink means different things in different societies. Understand the nuance of a context(to understand what certain things mean) i. e. a wink means different things in different societies i. e. eyebrow raise (in banowati) = agreement. Cockfight is a story the balinese tell themselves to learn about themselves. Marco polo - wrote about his travels, wrote about cultures, traditions, languages about people he relatively young discipline - 150 years old fieldwork and ethnographies - began in 20th century roots in philiosophy, history met.
