ANTHRO 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ethnography, Spiritualism, Intentionality
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Chapter one, seeking truth, of paul stroller"s (2009) the power of the between: an. Anthropological odyssey primarily discusses the author"s experiences within the anthropological field. First, stroller (2009) pinpoints how there were two opposing perspectives or views expressed during his college years as a linguistic student: transformalists (more radical or laid back) and structuralists (more formal and well kept) (2009:13). These differing viewpoints differed in their understanding of how to delve into the deeper truth of things (stroller 2009:12). Later, stroller (2009) recants his first trip to the american anthropological association"s san. Francisco meeting and admits to getting stoned (2009:14) with his colleagues on their long, unlucky expedition. This san francisco meeting would hopefully assist stroller (2009) before he went back to niger to do fieldwork and better understand the spiritualism of the hauka (2009:14). Eventually, stroller (2009) discusses the beliefs of various anthropologists in their interpretations and he concludes that.
