ANTH 1006 Lecture 1: Before the Sixties Article
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Holistic study to compare a region to the entire world. Each culture has aspects that differ from your own. Sometimes, authors will talk about themselves briefly so they can compare to how the people they study might differ from them. Ethnography: a detailed account of a culture. Ethnology: compares ethnographies based on different ethnographies. Conrad does a microproject in a small el salvador city. Found that people used different words to describe the race of three sisters of different colors. Participant observation: a small group of people and interact with them. Pros of po: rapport, trust, and better connection, detailed rather than inferred, qualitative data. Cons of po: change cultural phenomena, long time= more $, health?, uncooperative people, bias----ethnocentrism(own culture is superior) Culture shock: having a difficult time interacting(depression, uncomfortable)
