ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Samaale, Ethnocentrism, Brainpower
10 Feb 2014
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It just matters what is happening now: ethnographic authority, you are the basic source of information of that group you are studying. There is no way that information you collect can be completely verifiable: there is no completely unbiased info and you have to establish your authority for the reader. After returning to east coast to zuni & choked on a fish bone loser : he was initiated into the zuni tribe (left pic), he also shows us that the people themselves have a kind of reflexivity, ex. A zuni artist looks at frank hamilton cushing book -- this guy took pieces from cushing"s work and illustrated them. Explanations of cultural variation: principle of plenitude, god wanted more and better diversity in the world a richer life and environment, great chain of being. Hierarchy of forms (inanimate to animate to divine)
