AN100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Transhumance, Tomboy, Louis Dumont
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Ethnography: the task of discovering and describing a particular culture, The anthropologist will move into a community, watch people"s daily routines, attend rituals, and spend hours interviewing informants. Learning the meanings of actions from the informant"s point of view. Anthropologist"s don"t tell informants what their world should really be. Rather than studying people, ethnography means learning from like. people. Naive realism: unconscious belief that reality is same for everyone regardless of their culture. Assumes that love, snow, marriage, worship, animals, death, food, etc. all have the same meaning to all human beings. Culture: the knowledge, art, law, morals, and customs acquired as a member of a society. When ethnographers study other cultures, they must deal with 3 fundamental aspects of human experience: Cultural behaviour: e. g. , reading on a train, ethnographers observe behaviour and inquire about the meaning of that behaviour.
