ANP 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bronisław Malinowski, Franz Boas, Structural Functionalism
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Study of human diversity across time and space, study of living cltrs or recent historical cltr: global in scope. From rural to urban; non-western to western; marginalized to the elite: bottom-up approach. Begin by studying people and patterns of human life at the local scale: ethnographic fdwk. Extensive periods w/ the people we study: attentive to power relations&structure. Studies people and their structure of power(ie. family) Even tho part of one group, not everyone is the same. Fdwk - spending an extended period of time w/ people to study local" language, behaviors, beliefs, customs, economy, activities, politics, religious rituals, etc. Ethno - a detailed account of a particular group, community, society or cltr informed by data collected during fdwk. Reflexivity: critical self-examination of how one"s position influences what data one could get(gender, race, etc) Positionality: the notion that anthropologists must situate themselves(describe their social position) in relation to the people they"re studying.
