ANTH 202 Chapter : Rosaldo - Culture & Truth - Remaking of Social Analysis Renato Rosaldo .doc
8 Jul 2014
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Rosaldo - culture & truth - remaking of social analysis. Trying to understand ilongot"s rage/anger in bereavement was difficult/unable to be fathomed until actually experienced personally. Verbal elaboration/deeper levels of analysis not necessarily the answers. Ethnographers reposition themselves as they go about understanding other cultures . This is to say that they begin with a set of questions, revise them throughout the course of inquiry, and in the end emerge with an entirely different set of questions. Although the doctrine of preparation, knowledge, and sensibility contains much to admire one should work to undermine the false comfort that it can convey . Problem with taking this mode of preparation is that it can lend false air of security, authoritative claim to certitude, and finality decrepitude. Web definitions a state of deterioration due to old age or long use. wordnetweb. princeton. edu/perl/webwn con flate.
