ANTH 103 Study Guide - Taiap Language, Avoidance Speech, Language Ideology
15 Apr 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Study guide for anthropology in a changing world: midterm. Culture is the learned and shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior and interpret experience -from spradley and mccurdy. Explicit culture: categories of knowledge and meaning that people can talk about. Tacit culture: the taken for granted or unsaid . It is the study of a culture to understand how people interpret and act in their world based on participant observation. Ethnographers: study cultural groups (including microcultures) long-term. In order to: understand systems of meaning-making from within. Learn how to interpret the world through new cultural frameworks. Understand the relationship between cultural knowledge and behavior. Pitfalls of ethnography include: na ve realism the belief that all people see or experience the world in the same way. Ethnocentrism the belief that one"s own culture is best (or right) See lee eating christmas in the kalahari and gmelch, nice girls don"t talk to rastas for examples.
