AHSS 1350 Lecture 4: Intercultural Comm._ Week 4_ Verbal Communication_Observation
24 Feb 2019
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Like ethnography, intensive investigation of a different culture. Relies more on participant observation (gather info by working, collaborating and interacting with participating - not observing, can"t do both at the same time), less on interviews. Written description and analysis of an anthropologists observations, interactions and experiences. Inponderabilia of actual life: studying the everyday, mundane aspects of everyday life. Corpus inscriptionum: peoples stories, narrative; how do they think. Ilongot - a group of people in the philippines. Years later, his wife died by falling off a cliff; after that experience he understood the word/emotion of liget (an energy/rage that cannot be contained) Some things can only be understood through experience. Exapmle: star trek: next generation episode: (on netflix - season 5, episode 2 - darmok ) Summary: the enterprise approaches the uninhabited eladrel solar system, near the territory of the enigmatic, presumably pacific race known as the children of tamar, which is now establishing contact.
