ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Ethnography, Tim Ingold
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Occasional quizzes (short and straightforward, focus on reading comprehension) Textbook is on short term loan as well. Relevant sources, not necessarily have to be anthropological. Last semester was theoretical, this semester more ethnographic. Actual practice of doing ethnography, anthropology enter the field, choices make in the field, how to bound their research, and how they interact with the participants. Act of doing as opposed to the writing that comes afterwards. Engage with real world rather than theoretical abstraction. Concern of place of anthropology in relation to other discipline. Lack of theoretical insight coming from the field. Thought that it can not be extrapolated from other disciplines. Sense that it does not compel with other anthropologists in other disciplines. Belief that one"s tribe has a spiritual connection with an animal. Incest taboos - can not marry or sleep with someone of the same totem. Link mental lives of primitive people and modern neurotics.
