[ANTH 2] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (15 pages long)
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Introduction: social/ cultural anthropology anthropology --> archaeology? social/cultural --> different people have different customs and practices (ex. People choose w/in conditions (ex. materials, economic, cultural, People are born in a society that they didn"t choose. Is a process through time w/changes (evolution) What anthropologists think (mind) unified vision of human life: biology, society, culture universals and particulars holism of human existence. Questions our assumptions (about others &what other think of us) Ethnography: studying daily life (in writing-notes of observation) For example, an anthropologists goes somewhere to eat and when he sees a man eats before a woman, he/she would began to observe and make. Going to places and be part of the daily life somewhere else different. With structure, so that it makes it possible to answer specific research questions. Descriptive details of what happen in a certain day. The ethnics of social research: what anthropologists study? daily life (people) elsewhere somewhere different from where they live.
