Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sociocultural Anthropology, Anthropology Today, Ethnography
25 Nov 2016
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What is sociocultural anthro: see (txt:1-2) on history of discipline. Sociocultural anthropology is broadly comparative in its scope taking in all societies into account and treating them all as equally signi cant. At the same time anthropology continues be rmly rooted in the descriptive richness that comes out of speci c encounters anthropologists have with particular people and places (txt: 2) Peter just: research with dou donggo people in sumbawa, indonesia (txt:4-8) John monaghan: research with mixtec people in southern mexico (txt: 9-11) No: another commonly referenced goal is to make familiar seem exotic or strange , word-ritual. Unexpected ndings: getting around campus, why students sleep in class, differences in faculty and student expectations: Faculty assumed that students attend university to study topics that they nd interesting, no matter how impractical. Students are far more concerned with the practical relevance of what they are studying. Recall: in anthropology, study humanity in general and in all its diversity.
