ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biological Anthropology, Androcentrism, Feminist Anthropology
6 Oct 2013
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The anthropologist becomes an ethnographer by going to live among the people under study. Personally experiencing their habits and customs and understand their way of life data by experience. Championed by franz boas the father of fieldwork collecting. Cultural bound: theories about the world and reality based on the assumptions and values of one"s own culture. Ethnography: the collection of descriptive material on a culture. Ethnology: the comparative study of cultures to explain human behavior. Ethnohistory: the study of cultures from the recent past using oral histories, archeological sites, and written accounts left by explorers, missionaries, and traders. A method of learning a people"s culture through direct observations and participation in their everyday life. Alice reich calls it, a time honoured tradition of making a fool of oneself for a point . Dealing with an ethics and review board. Resercher bias every field experience from research process can influence researcher"s interpretation of the data.
