ANT-2215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Participant Observation, Ethnography, Social Fact
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Accomplishments not talking about savages in a derogatory way. Providing methodology of separating anthropology and other sections. Differentiating what we should be doing from what we have been doing. You understand them by living with them and immersing themselves in it. Other disciplines do it one way this is how we as anthropologists should do it. The information is in their minds and memories. Other people have a lot to say about these natives. One real scientific aims can"t be living with anybody but natives. Have to be smart and know how to interpret things. Might be lonely because natives might not like you. Gave tobacco to get natives to like him. Cannot look at one thing as one thing; must look at the whole culture not just one aspect such as the economy because it relates to social aspects. Malinowski out to kill the idea of savage people with his science.
