ANT102H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ethnography, Franz Boas, Cultural Relativism
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How you can begin to think like an anthropologist: questions anthropologists are concerned with. Linguistic anthropology: remains the relationship between language and culture. Interested in how people use language, nothing a physical sense with regards to communication is structured. Sociological anthropology: how societies are structured and cultural meanings are created, fieldwork. Question 1. 2: how do anthropologists learn about culture: Ethnographic fieldwork: armchair anthropologists: refers to an approach to the study of various societies that dominated anthropology in the late 1800s. It involved the collection study, and analysis of the writings of missionaries, explorers, and colonists who had sustained contact with non-western peoples. This often involves living with people, observing and contributing to daily chores and tasks (participant observation), and conducting interviews. Most fieldwork in anthropology has historically been qualitative in nature: had to travel to non-western people and conduct fieldwork for about a year; interviews and surveys, taking photographs, and recording songs and narratives, among other things.
