ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Relativism, Cultural Anthropology
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2 (please feel free to comment on the missing terms by defining them) armchair anthropology (lecture): a person who has book knowledge but has never had practical experience. He/she might know the theory but has never tried it out by him/herself. sad. A technique of field of research, which an investigator (participant observer) studies the life of a group by sharing in its activities. Ethnography: the study and systematic recording of human cultures; also a descriptive work produced from such research. Othering : 2 purposes: reflect on north american cultural differences, and reflect on dangers of othering too much. 4 fields of anthropology: biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology. Denaturalize: denaturalized things we take for granted as normal or as objective truths (makes them seem less natural ) Ethnocentrism: the often implicit idea that your culture or group or lifestyle is the center of everything.
