ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emic And Etic, Evolutionism, Ethnography

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Dumes

Document Summary

Participant observation: people often can experience culture shock usually a time-limited experience, rapport: a good, friendly working relationship based on personal contact, mutual trust. Genealogical method: established technique to understand social relationships + reconstruct history, allows you to understand types of recognised kinship inheritance + marriage rules, child rearing. Cultural consultants/key informants: individuals who by accident, experience talent or training that provides a look into particular aspects of life: emic+etic cultural perspectives for ethnography. Theories are dynamic and those that don"t get a phenomenon correctly are modi ed or discarded. 19th century theory: unilinear evolutionism: one line or path along which societies evolved. Lewis henry morgan + sir edward taylor savagery > barbarism >civilisation: both interested in survivals" practices that survive in modern society from earlier evolutionary stages, anthropology is: handmaiden of colonialism.