ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ethnography, Human Terrain System, Rapidfire
8 Nov 2012
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Despite globalization, the cultural diversity under anthropological scrutiny right now may be as great as ever before, because the anthropological universe has expanded to modern nations. Its research techniques were developed to deal with small populations. Early studies of sociology, such as emile durkheim, were among the founders of both sociology and anthropology. Durkheim studied the religions of native australians as well as mass phenomena, such as suicide rates, in modern nations. Sociologists focused on the industrial west; anthropologists, on nonindustrial societies. Traditional ethnographers studied small, non-literate populations and relied on ethnographic methods appropriate to that context. Early ethnographers lived in small-scale, relatively isolated societies with. Ethnography: anthropology"s distinctive strategy simple technologies and economies. Ethnography emerged as a research strategy in societies with greater cultural uniformity and less social differentiation than are found in large, modern nations. Traditionally, ethnographers have tried to understand the whole of a particular culture.
