ANT204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnography, Participant Observation
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The founder of the anthropological field method and participant observation. The study and description of people and their customs and culture. Also use it to talk about the written text that anthropologists write. Acknowledge that it was written in a particular context and historical context and historical time (1922), but we wouldn"t use the term in this way today. Acknowledging that our field that its methods and theories developed within a colonial context, and changing the continuation of this. Use specific research methods like participant observation to understand something about a society and its people. Have some idea of what you want to learn but be open to things you didn"t know existed. Emic (insider"s perspective)= understanding and analysing a culture from information obtained from within the social group. Etic (outsider"s perspective) = the analysis of a culture obtained from outside the culture. Anthropology is a lens through which you look at the world which you look at the world.
