ANTH100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Participant Observation, Human Relations Area Files, Dan Fouts

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH100
• Professor: Maria Liston

Document Summary

All of our choices have strong cultural impact. Looking at the whole human being and the whole of human society. Fieldwork: can be done anywhere - working with the people in their natural environment. Important in differentiating anthropology from other social sciences. Anthropologists elicit a relationship with those we study. Participant observation: going and living within a culture, doing and participating in their culture while observing. Margaret mead: first to see the woman"s side of culture/life in south east asia. Ruth benedict: worked in japan - involved in post war reconstruction. Key informants: in a large society that dies out, link the ongoing interviews and discussions with ongoing members of a society. Ishi: california - last of his people died, he was found starving and was arrested. He worked with an anthropologist and ended up living at the museum the anthropologist worked at to tell the story of his people.