ANTHR-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Rights, Emic And Etic, Cultural Learning
24 Aug 2020
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Emic: research strategy focusing on local explanations and meanings. Etic: research strategy emphasizing the ethnographers explanations and categories. The etic (scientist-oriented) approach shifts the focus from local observations, categories, explanations, and interpretations to those of the anthropologist. The etic approach realizes that members of a culture often are too involved in what they are doing to interpret their cultures impartially. Both etic and emic together are reality. A goal of science is to increase understanding by explaining things. Theory: a set of ideas formulated to explain something. Hypothesis: suggested, but as yet unverified, explanations. The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across generations. Also the process by which a child learns his or her culture. A symbol is something verbal or nonverbal, within a particular . An exchange of cultural features between groups in firsthand contact; the cultures of either group or both groups may change, but each group remains distinct.
