ANTHR-140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Participant Observation, Emic And Etic, Ethnography
22 Dec 2020
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Learning about the collective experience by studying individuals. Vs sociology, which usually means learns about individuals by studying collective data. Cannot study the individual without also studying his/her. In most social sciences research, the goal is to maintain distance between researcher and research subjects. However, cultural anthropologists get up close and personal with their research subjects. Anthropology emerged from efforts to learn about primitive cultures as a way of gaining insight into the state of nature . At first, this was done through reading the travelogues and diaries of european and. Malinowski, changed the way anthropological research is conducted. You get to see more (more examples of behaviour, more events, etc. ) More accurately (research subjects get used to you, are less affected by your presence) the particular things that anthropology is most interested in (the imponderabilia of everyday life ) You to get to think like a native . Etic distanced, objective perspective of the analyst.
