ANT100Y1 Final: Socio-Cultural Ethnographic Examples Terminology

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Marcel Danesi

Document Summary

Anthropology anthropologists must serve as witnesses and reporters of human rights abuses and the suffering of the poor/oppressed. Ethnographic method immersion of researchers in the lives and cultures of the peoples they are trying to understand in order to. Participation observation active participation of researcher/observer in the lives of those being studied comprehend the meanings these people ascribe to existence. N happy meal an outsider who knows only something of what it is to be an insider a way of thinking about culture as a text of significant symbols (words, gestures, drawings) Virginity testing- related to way turkish villagers explain reproductive process. Young women- avoid sexual relations before marriage (not applicable to men) Consume dead: fit with dealing with their emotions/meaning they impose on the world. Balinese shy about open conflict-> cockfights- demonstrate the struggle for status in everyday life. Hockey affirms values of success, builds character, cooperation.