ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Anthropology, Participant Observation, Frank Hamilton Cushing

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 222
• Professor: Ronald Niezen

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: the idea of humanity, humanity is something that has emerged as a legal category (ie. hr) His tongue does not stammer, just as his arrow does not stray, for how can. :looking at social institutions that can make use of law, looking at customs, a group of people. Hence: a society or group characterized by such customs, Anthropology: principle/concept of human belonging, social and cultural relationship. Must observe people from distance, to be able to observe more precisely & dispassionately: non-participant observation (cid:498)keeping scientific distance(cid:499) : founder of ethnography as the foundation of anthropology. Field work in areas of british colonialism. They are cognizant of the fact that the photograph is going to project a representation of their community to someone else the british colonizers. Some sort of division between the participants and the scientist, as full integration into the community is not evident.