ANTHR101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Institute Of Historical Research, Cosmic Ray, Carbon-12
14 Mar 2014
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Observation (conducted for a year or more) is considered fundamental to anthropology. *struggles that accompany this include learning both the language and the proper ways to behave. There is also a difficult balance between subjectivity and objectivity conflated in the process of participant-observation. One must find informants as well who can give a broader perspective of context outside of just a year or two of living with a group. Usually these informants are marginalized people in their culture who are willing to spend time with the visiting anthropologists and discuss their culture at length. Researchers identify conditions that wshoudl generally be associated if a particular theory is correct and then test to seee if it holds true. A lot of their information is found on sccs and ehraf: historical research - ethnohistory consists of studies based on descriptive materials about a single society at more than one point in time.
