AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Snowmobile, Enculturation, Cultural Relativism
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Ethnography: method of study and describing a culture based on the insiders point of view. In case studies last week (botswana and malawi) is that you have to ask questions. Discrete cultures (separate/independent) are more difficult to find today. Now they are part of a global culture. The people live with other cultures, to create a larger culture. Pop culture, youth culture, job culture, residences and university society as a whole. Anxiety from an inability to predict behaviour of others or act appropriately: peace corps workers had this, in many societies, work and having a good time are not divided, while in canada they aren"t together. We have different block for time ( breakfast, class, work, supper, sleep: this is an impediment to anthropological research, must know cultural cues for successful research. Central marker of what it means to be human.
