ANTH 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Salvage Ethnography, Barbara Myerhoff, Margaret Mead
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Learned behavior/habitual practice: you"re at a parade and someone throws a great doubloon that lands on the ground. Shared, but contested: racial division (zulu, mg indians, babydolls), regional/ethnic differences: courir de mardi gras. Research strategy that involves immersion and interaction with a community, over an extended period (1-2 year typically) Begin with entrance into a new society (or must set self up as anthropologist to study own community) Many experience culture shock: feelings of alienation and helplessness that result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture. Involves the acquisition of fundamental grounding knowledge of culture and adaptation to new culture. Develop network informants (respondents, consultants, friends)- people from and/or with whim anthropologists gather data. Participating in a given society but also observing social behavior and cultural beliefs. Combines subjective and objective views, etc. and emic perspectives. Malinowski"s study in trobriand islands became t he model. Did fieldwork in trobriand islands (torres straits)
