ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: James George Frazer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Ethnography

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Fieldwork as rite of passage: armchair anthropology, participation observation, edward tylor, james frazer, bronislaw malinowski, franz boas, ethnocentrism and cultural relativism, how they deal with having an open mind, culture. "if you want to understand what anthropology is, look at what they do. Above all else, what they do is ethnography" (monaghan and just 2000:13: ethnography (what anthropologists write) is, in turn. Feeding desire and renegade dreams are ethnographies (not novels: descriptive and analyses beyond how and figure out why specific cultures do specific things. What does ethnography/fieldwork accomplish: culture from "the native"s point of view, thick description, context for knowledge about culture, emic, mongwateau raise their eyebrows in sense of agreement. Brief history of anthropology: philosophers and various explorers as "proto-anthropologists, victorian anthropology (tylor and frazer): evolutionary, hierarchy of "civilization, comparative, second-hand accounts. Franz boas: historical particularism, cultural relativism versus ethnocentrism. Salvage ethnography: multi-sited ethnography, native anthropology, ethnography at home, virtual ethnography.

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