ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethnology, Ethnography, Emic And Etic
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Core concepts chapter 3: meaning-making and language (25-44) Core concepts appendix: reading ethnography (189-196) Second life chapter 1: the subject and scope of this inquiry (3-31) Birth of anthropology: euro exploration/colonization (cultural contact) 2: the enlightenment (science & social science, positivism - rational, objective view, society functions according to laws, knowledge derived from detached observation & empirical evidence. Tyler & henry morgan practices ethnology - cross cultural description/comparison of cultural groups. Arm-chair anthro - based on second-hand data. Growing desire to get out into the field . Skepticism on 2nd hand data & evolutionary theories. Influence of german interpretivism - immersion, subjectivity, empathetic understanding. Bronislaw malinowski: malinowski"s trobriand island during wwi. Cultural practices must be studied in own context/personal immersion. All cultures are relative & shouldn"t be judged. Goal is to grasp native"s pov emic vs. etic. Ethnographic methods: dealing with gatekeepers, learning language, finding informats, participant-observation, conservation & interviewing, longitudinal research, multi-sited ethnography, digital ethnography (netnography)
