ANTH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clifford Geertz, Carl Linnaeus, Ethnography
12 Oct 2016
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Humans are not born with one particular lens or cultural perspective, but all humans have the capacity for culture. Understanding culture allows appropriate behavior when interacting with others. Expectations of how people behave based on their sex are an essential part of culture. Sharing culture means people understand what goes on around them in approximately the same way. Easy to read surroundings, like a text. Ethnographers go and live among the people that they aim to learn about and slowly over time, come to understand their world. Ethnography: written or visual product of ethnographic research. Ethnographer: a cultural anthropologist who studies a group of people in the field-work. Ethnographers seek to understand the etic (cid:894)(cid:272)ultural insider"s(cid:895) view as well as the emic (outside o(cid:271)server"s(cid:895) view. A basic way to define culture is as the shared understandings that shape thought and guide behavior. Members of a culture share a set of beliefs, customs, values, and knowledge.
