ANT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cultural Relativism, Dani People, Big Data
24 Feb 2017
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Syllabus, powerpoints, and things he has talked about in class. Read the cocktails book although not on the test. Anthropologists need to be careful of what they ask. They have to know if what they"re asking is too intimate or is perfectly fine. Anthropologists have to ask questions however, yet sometimes, the data you get back can be questioned about if they actually learned and understood the subjects they were studying. In foreign countries, people have had arranged marriages not because of love but because of political power. One might bring land or money and wealth to marriage. Dani people of new guinea - chopped fingers off of little girls after their death (part of their culture about the dead). This was to symbolize separation. (synchronic explanation because it was to tell the dead that they were no longer part of the living.
