ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clyde Kluckhohn, Clifford Geertz, Talcott Parsons
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The cultural concept: ethnographer with a hard time, deforms identity into sameness, women, native women, deforms difference into inferiority i. Like columbus smelly natives: deforms difference into the erotic i. Cortes; malinowski struggles a great deal with this. A diary is a history of events accessible. d: anthropology is a fabricated text i. ii. iii. It is a medium not necessarily false. Isolate: modest, during the great depression, encounters the world, radio repairman, us navy heavy cruiser, world war ii us navy, antioch college, harvard department of social relations, talcott parsons, clyde kluckhohn, where he conducted fieldwork: Not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning : social sciences, anthropology, humanities. 1: methods, establishing rapport, selecting informants, transcribing texts, taking genealogies, mapping fields. Things, techniques & received procedures : ethnography does not equal methods.