ANTA02H3 Chapter 3: chapter 3 (lecture 3)
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= polish anthropologist who is considered to be the. = believed that the ethnographer"s job is to study and record cultural diversity threatened by westernization. = ethnographer"s primary task: to grasp the native"s point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world. = malinowski"s argonauts of the western pacific trobrian. Islanders" links between that entry point and other areas of the culture (kinship, religion, etc) = writer"s goal was to present an accurate, objective, scientific account of a different way of life, written by someone who knew it firsthand knowledge came from an ethnographic adventure. Interpretative anthropology = describing and inter[reting that which is meaningful to natives. = interpretivist that view culture as meaningful texts that natives constantly read and ethnographers must decipher meanings in culture are carried by public symbolic forms, including words, rituals, and customs. Trend in ethnographic writing to question traditional goals, methods and styles.
