ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Culture Shock, Ethnography, Participant Observation

• School: UConn
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1000
• Professor: Eleanor Ouimet

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Living: having a home within the community or living with people who are already established in the community. Participating: it"s important to not just sit back as an objective observer, but to engage with the community. Often, anthropologists will get jobs within the community, attend meetings, go to church, have meals with the community, etc. Their daily life has to look like the daily lives of the people they"re studying. Talking: conversations allow us to get to know people. This includes normal day- to-day conversations as well as formal interviews (however, often pre-written questions become irrelevant as an anthropologist understands the culture more and more, and new questions are needed) Traditionally, an anthropologist would move their whole lives to other parts of. It begins with the people the world or the country to study a different culture, often for years and years at a time.