ANTHRO 169B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)
4 Dec 2017
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Explains development of ethnographic authority in anthropology: 1900-1960"s: anthropologists engaged in intense fieldwork (which became standard for western anthropology). Malinowski and mead: developed experimental modes of ethnography using participant-observation to stablish scientific validity. Interpretative anthro: culture read as an assemblage of texts experiential criteria of authority under criticism. These developments attempted to address the limitations of earlier ethnography, like the colonial representation of a other & western-centric basis of ethnographic authority. *still, these new approaches have limitations biases & limit inherent in the writer"s own cultural experiences. Early anthro was done with information from travelers, missionaries and non-trained individuals, and then analyzed by arm-chair anthropologists. Importance: collection of data (all about the collection) The need to understand the distinctiveness of the many cultures (language, ideologies, etc. ) Not much interpretation but the gathering of data. [indigenous peoples were disappearing. civilization was inevitable, so extinction of cultures was feared. The collection of data to helped preserve the cultures was needed. ]
