ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Culture Shock, Kathleen Gough, Margaret Mead
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Allow yourself to be enculturated without being constricted by your own beliefs. Stress on the anthropologist, e. g. difficult topics, issues, etc. Example: the community may not agree with the anthropologist living (feminism, living without a man, etc. ) Culture shock: overwhelming feeling that nothing is familiar (freshman year?) +(cid:373)ultiple stages of adjust(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:894)getti(cid:374)g use to a(cid:374)other perso(cid:374)"s (cid:449)ay of life(cid:895) + culture shock upon return, as well (ex: coming home for a week and wanting to come back to uconn) + can lead to reflection on home culture (how differently people do things vs. how we do them here) Attempt to document everything but truly an impossibility (some things are(cid:374)"t (cid:448)ital to the research a(cid:374)d with larger communities, you may not get the chance to do everything) Asking the right questions and developing trust (what methods work for you) Observing the world around us, normally, abnormally, and understanding the basis for it.
