ANTH 202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Defamiliarization, Paul Rabinow, Jorge Luis Borges

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Riddle makes us think about people also being animals; metaphor for dualism and how all class concepts are related and are more complex than they appear. Man is a complex being that has many facets. The eld - the place of anthropological study. Fieldwork - the collection of information outside of a lab or workplace setting. Strangeness and familiarity - think of forest of bliss, life and death (life in death and the death in life), no dramatic in uences, we fear the strange because we see the similarities in our own lives. Otherness - something separate from our own familiarity. Observation - the attentive watching of somebody or something. Subjects and objects - humans are subjects, changing and subjective in their ways; objects are inanimate, tools for the subjects. Themes include the cycle of life, otherness, and making the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Everything in this world is eater or eaten.