ANT102H5 Midterm: ANT102H5 - Lecture notes up to mid term
selin.aksezgin and 39983 others unlocked
31
ANT102H5 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
31 documents
Document Summary
1- holism- perspective of research - understand all concepts of the culture - looks at integration of living human communities, how biological, ecological, interact: integration, ! 2- eldwork - data gathering phase, microscopic, in-depth ! 3- comparison - geographic scope, and temporal scope, time, and historical, compare it to the past, allows you to test hypothesis ! 4- cultural relativism/ ethnocentrism - when studying other cultures, it is important to suspend initial judgement, not judge, and give it a moral judgement. Ethnocentric - everything is interrupted in your narrow culture my way is correct, basis ! 5- scienti c/nomothetic anthropology (related to 6) - argues that anthropology should be generated by theories that are law likes that approximate laws, looking at sophisticated correlation. 6- interpretive/re exive anther - always variation, and exceptions to the rule what anthropology should be doing should be looking at discourse, science itself in certain forms are ideological, brain wash discourse.