ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Maisin Language, Cultural Relativism, Animism
26 Jan 2017
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Chapter review assignment 600 words from ancestral lines; online submission. Research methods trying to answer a research question. 1st hand research technique: type of immersion, join in on-going daily activities. Long period of time (what period of time it takes to answer the research question, it varies) Dual purpose: participation & observation, requires heightened observation and awareness, field notes. Barbra monsey vending machines: order & disorder . Going native spending enough various situations time in a certain place that you pick up. Documenting obvious and visible their tendencies, etc. and can"t give a behaviours clear description of the culture. Not good for subtle behaviours or answering the question why . Produces a lot of data tends to be messy. Comparisons between emic understandings: comes from linguistics, phonetics study of the sounds of all human languages (analytical framework, phonemics study of the sounds of a particular language (particular framework)
