ANTHRO 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Emic And Etic, Ethnography, Phonetics
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Emic: focuses on what is meaningful, insider perspecive, ex: phonemes. Eic: captures everything regardless of signiicance, outsider perspecive, ex: phoneics, when we irst go into the ield, start with eic perspecive, since we don"t yet know what is important and what isn"t. Later on, you determine that yes it is. As an ethnographer, take a step back and relect how something afects the people in the observed group- perspecive that is bigger than people experience every day: end up with informed outsider perspecive. What makes us human: language, kinship and family, religion, health and medicine. Displacement- describe something that is not here; talk about past and future. Express abstract ideas- emoions + other things that don"t take on a physical form (can"t touch or take a picture of happy or sad ); beliefs. Can invent new words to describe new things (i. e. computer, keyboard) Can create words to reine a word that is already there (ex: late-ish; frat- tasic; hangry)
