HUMA 1970 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Baffin Island, Clifford Geertz, Trobriand Islands
21 Feb 2018
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The study of culture: in family structures, religion, political and economic life. Interested in the social relationships of human beings (uc 163) Culture can be loosely summarized as the complex of values, customs, beliefs, and practices which constitute the way of life of a specific group . Not just high culture (music, literature, painting and sculpture, theatre and film) but a particular group"s way of life . Wh rivers: british anthropologist who led expedition in 1898 to papua new guinea to study nature and landscape f islands as well as psychological and social life of people who lived there. Franz boas: american anthropologist who studied inuit culture in baffin island (canadian. Bronislaw malinowski: anthropological fieldwork in trobriand islands. Ethnography is what anthropologists do (clifford geertz) Ethnography is the recording and analysis of a culture or society, usually based on participant-observation and resulting in a written account of a people, place or institution (coleman and simpson)
