ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Method, Ethnocentrism, Participant Observation
10 Feb 2016
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Socio-cultural -> ethnographic field work is main focus. Our unique perspective first focuses on details/patterns of human life in local setting. We seek to understand their experience through their own eyes, we participate in their activities, take notes, do interviewing, take pictures, record sounds, make maps of communities, physical & social relationships. Key aspect of fieldwork is to look beyond taken-for-granted our everyday experiences of life to discover the complex systems of power. & meaning that people construct to shape their existence -> can include things like gender, sexuality, kinship, economic & political systems. When we understand how people live, we compare it to other lives in order to expose larger human practices in global contexts. Ethnography does two things for us -> gives us broader understanding of human practise & helps us understand global contexts -> also known as looking comparatively.
