ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Maisin Language, Ethnography, Ibm Officevision
16 Jan 2017
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Prof"s job is to survey area and spend time with the indigenous people in the area in order to conserve their practices while the bridge is being build/after it is built (fish trapping, praying in mountains) The indigenous peoples wanted their salmon fishing to not be affected, as well as their spiritual practices/drawing to be conserved (their ancestors had drilled sticks down into the bottom of the river) People discovered an indigenous man from 1000"s of years ago preserved in ice. Could trace his ancestry, and find the people he is related to (blood sample) Study of garbage (or so other anthropologists call it) Muchles skate park archeology - prof"s friend digging up skate park from hundred + years ago. Human behaviour in context of our biology (evolution, comparison to primates - primatology) Participant observation (participating in the lives of other people/deeply hanging out) How the prof hangs out with indigenous people.
