SA 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thick Description, Cittaslow, Deductive Reasoning

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 101
• Professor: Bascom Guffin

Document Summary

Perspectives, doing fieldwork: methods in cultural anthropology found, to be read: counihan, carole. Around the tuscan table: food, family, and gender in. An urban tour: the sensory sociality of ethnographic place-making. Land tenure - how property rights to land are allocated within societies, including. Contested identity - a dispute within a group about the collective identity or. Fieldwork - the most important method by which cultural anthropologists gather data identities of the group to answer their research questions. Interacting on daily basis w group of ppl while documenting their observations and perceptions + adjust the focus of their research as needed. Field - anywhere the ppl are (can be a village in highland papua new. Cultural anthropologist"s goal during fieldwork - describe of ppl to others in way that makes strange/unusual features seem familiar and familiar traits seem extraordinary. Help ppl think in new ways about aspects of their own culture by comparing them w other cultures.