ANTA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Benjamin Lee Whorf, James George Frazer, Edward Sapir
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Ethnography is the written paper of analysis that cultural anthropologist do after studying a culture. This is an important aspect because it allows cultures that may die out to be understood and notice and studied. As anthropologist before did not study from the fly on wall perspective before they started too and it allow less ignorance in the cultures. Father of anthropology was malinowski which he visit the papa and wrote a report. He did a key factor within ethnography, which was participant observation: where he joined the culture but still was able to observe and record what he saw and did. James frazer was said to be one of the founder fathers of cultural anthropology because documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs across the globe. Frazer posited that human belief progressed through three stages: primitive magic, replaced by religion, in turn replaced by science.
