SRS 1110 Study Guide - Lightning, Mother Goddess, Homeopathy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: All

Document Summary

In lead with the devil: witch hunting/burning, evil doers, warlock = male witch, religious catholic) 1950-1960: wiccah, feminist/goddess, description of a person"s spirituality (witch instead of example: jew, political statement/identity for women (represents power) Anthropologists study human societies as integrated wholes, an approach called holism. This approach is seen in the broad scope of anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology. This approach requires that societies be studied over long periods of time, during which the investigator lives within the community and participates in the lives of the people under study, a technique known as participant observation. The final product is an ethnography, a descriptive study of a human society. An outside observer of a community usually imposes his or her system on analysis on the group under study (etic perspective). It is natural to use one"s own society as a basis for interpreting and judging other societies, a tendency called ethnocentrism.