MGEA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Franz Boas, Nacirema, American Anthropologist

• School: UTSC
• Department: Economics for Management Studies
• Course: MGEA01H3
• Professor: Unknown

Document Summary

Ethnography serves at once to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar, all the better to understand them both. In a recent review of a book about president obama"s mother, anthropologist catherine. Lutz wrote, in telling ms. dunham"s transnational story, ms. scott uses a standard anthropological gambit: she first makes kansas strange and then makes indonesia and the world of development experts in the 1970s and 1980s familiar (lutz. Ethnographic method: the immersion of researchers in the lives and cultures of the people they are trying to understand in order to comprehend the meaning these people ascribe to their existence. Ethnography: a written description and analysis of a particular group of people, usually based upon anthropological fieldwork: defamiliarization, cultural critique, cross-cultural juxtaposition, denaturalization, strange/familiar, other/self. Latipso: nacirema, notgnihsaw, house shrines, american, washington, bathrooms, dentists, hospital. Our review of the ritual life of the nacirema has certainly shown them to be a magic-ridden people.