ANTHRO 2A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Participant Observation, Cultural Relativism
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Interactive approach in which anthropologists study a group of people in their own environment by living with them and participating in their daily lives. A detailed qualitative account of the results of ethnographic fieldwork. Describes observations and analyzes meaning, form, and structure. Cannot assume that your own beliefs are the same as anyone else"s. Everything is relative based on the individual. There are many ways to be right and many ways to be wrong . Learned and shared, not inherited or universal.
