ANTHR110 Lecture : Enthnography.pdf
8 Dec 2013
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Ethnography: intro originally people who studied cultures were amateurs who happened to either be particularly observant or who happened to travel a lot. Some of them did more or less what people did today. Compiled something like 42 volumes of detailed descriptions of native life: a famous franciscan missionary in mexico in the 16th century had a kind of ethnographic sweatshop. Had a whole group of natives who worked with him. Brittish anthropologist named bronislaw malinowski: during wwi was beginning to study people in new guinea and the nearby islands. He had to give his word of honor that he wouldn"t work for the germans, put on parole and could study the. Trobriand islanders: wrote a series of very long books. Insisted that you had to live with the people you studied and learn their language and immerse yourself in their lives.
