ANTA02H3 Lecture : Class 1
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Overarching reason in this course is to learn to think like an anthropologists and why we approach problems in the real world. Field work: this distinguishes anthropology from other disciplines in the social sciences. >we get out of the library and books and go into the communities and learn from them first hand. >you cannot be an anthropologists without fieldwork, unless you an anthropology student. This is what you right up after the field work to record you analysis and information gotten from the field. Its not just a description(although important) of a culture but must have an insight and analysis to answer some sort of question. For example in feeding desire, why is fatness so beautiful and sexy. Portray a given culture from the natives point of view so that the reader can see exactly what is going on in that culture. Thick description: describing the context of the place being studied. example of.
