ANTH 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clifford Geertz, Marvin Harris, William C. Sturtevant
5 May 2020
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Binary oppositions identify the mental structures that undergird social behavior (levi-stauss- States that the brain is programmed to think in opposites, male-female, hot-cold, up-down etc (levi-strauss- europe) Attempted to understand culture from the point of view of the people themselves (ward goodenough and william sturtevant- usa) Systematic reanalysis of the role women play in a social structure (louise. A philosophical system based on observable scientific facts and their relationship to one another. Examine how the people of a specific culture interpret their own values and behaviors, instead of searching for universal laws, anthropologists should strive for evocative description! (clifford geertz) Observing and learning in the field while participating in an activity. An in-depth account of peoples culture studied bu the anthropologists who conducted the one site fieldwork. Participatory action research involving members of the cultural group they were studying with project design, data collection, and data analysis, involving local people in applied research.
