ANTH 353 Lecture 26: The Problem with Subjectivity

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16 May 2018

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Anth 353

Sex and Gender in Culture

Spring 2018

The Problem with

Objectivity.

A. The problem of Objectivity

- Anthropologist in a superior position

- Well informed scientific researchers

- Local peoples often think that they can trust them because they

- Are well informed, educated etc.

- Objectivity is associated with science

- Which is understood as a higher way of knowing

- Oe that produes the truth

- Rejection of speaking generalities

- I.e. the Ashanti, the Zuni

B. Assumption

- A human researcher can collect data unaffected by

- Subjective concerns

- Personhood

- Identity

- Standing completely out of social context

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