ANTH 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Universal, Indigenous Intellectual Property, Cultural Rights
22 Jan 2017
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Etic (science oriented) approach: emphasizes their own categories, explanations, and interpretations the anthropologist considers important. Emic (native oriented) approach: how local people perceive and categorize the world what is meaningful to them, emic perspective provided by cultural consultants (informants, there can be concordance between emic and etic approaches. They mix them to see from both perspectives of the anthropologists and the native people. Cultural relativism: principle that behavior in one culture should not be judged by the standards of another culture, extreme cultural relativism is problematic there is no superior, international, or universal. Universal rights: human rights: notions of challenge to cultural relativism. Cultural rights: right of a group to preserve its culture, language, and economic base. Indigenous intellectual property rights (cid:272)o(cid:374)ser(cid:448)atio(cid:374) of ea(cid:272)h so(cid:272)iety"s (cid:272)ore (cid:271)eliefs, knowledge, and practices. Positionality of researcher: relationship between the researchers and the people with who they are working, biases of the researcher, oftentimes hidden and not discussed.
