ANT-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kula Ring, The Technique, Ethnography
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Long term research, immersion in foreign culture. Feelings of hopelessness and despair after failed attempts to be in touch with the. Study all aspects of culture (holistic): kinship, kula ring, commonplace, clothes, family natives or be supplied with any real material constitutions, tribal dances, everyday routines. These are called the inponderabilia of life. These are equally important for an ethnographer to take note of in order to join tribal life and understand it entirely. The technique an ethnographer uses to understand a culture. Possess scientific aims : know the values and criteria of modern ethnography. Live without other white men, right among the natives : put himself in good conditions of work. Apply special methods for collecting evidence (ex: village census, genealogies, kinship tables), manipulating and fixing his evidence. In order to understand what is really going, you need someone who lives within that system to interpret it and explain it to you.
