HLTB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Franz Boas, Nacirema, Lewis H. Morgan
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Horace miner: nacirema talks about how people do certain things to keep themselves from getting sick and also to make themselves better. Modern knowledge (western) vs primitive knowledge (beliefs) This separates one group as having knowledge and that the other group believes in magic or uneducated ideas. Dialogical: involves an exchange between observers and observed. More of an exchange with participants about how field work is done and the findings, and. It acknowledges that we are all other in some way to somebody the use for those findings. Gazing back: don"t treat people as bugs under a microscope, Relations of power: always occurs in a larger field of power, different relations at work. Speaking in the third person shows more authority and knowledge. Our role in the research is not to disappear. Decolonizing methodology: changing the way we do research. Concept of culture is really important in anthropology. The word culture was equated with civilization.
