ANT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Franz Boas, Nacirema, Ethnocentrism
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Franz boas" attempts to document native american cultures that were devastated by the westward expansion of settles are called: salvage ethnography. In his study body rituals among the nacirema" horace miner attempts to make the familiar seem strange while demonstrating the inherent difficulties of study another culture. The author suggests that anthropology is unique among the other disciplines such as economics or history because our perspective begins with: the details and patterns of human life and local setting. Community members who guide, advise, and teach the ethnographer during fieldwork are called: _____ are commonly used as a strategy to collect quantitative data. Digital immigrants are: the generation that uses technology, but in a process more akin to learning a new culture or language. Based on linguistic evidence of the hopi, a native american group in the southwestern united. See the section of "can language shape our ways of thinking" page 120-121.