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- 1Insider/native anthropologyInsider/native anthropology is done by anthropologists who are members of the community they are studying, and therefore already have intimate kinship and other ties to the community. Zora Neale Hurston's work "Of Mules and Men" is an example of insider/native anthropology, since she returned to her community in the South to do her research. Richard B. Lee's work can't count as an example of insider/native anthropology, since he was not a member of the group he was studying in the Kalahari.
- 2salvage anthropologySalvage anthropology is the collection of human artifacts and interactions of civilizations in attempt to preserve the culture of these civilizations on the verge of extinction, including those affected by modernization. Zora Neale Hurston's work in "Of Mules and Men" is an example of salvage anthropology Hurston was practicing salvage anthropology when she recorded the folklore of former slaves living in the South.
- 3ReflexivityGoing into fieldwork knowing your own opinions and biases
Anthropologist should acknowledge their own opinions and biases when recording data
What they’re also bringing into their data and records
“Perhaps I was just too attached or too stubborn to give
up my American expectations of "shopping": the sense of anonymity and
private space, the trained smiles of "customer service," the various comforts of standardization from price tags to muzak,” (Chu 21-22). - 4native's point of viewBronislaw Milinowski, the first person to really establish a scientific method for how fieldwork should be done. , said that “the goal of anthropology is to grasp the native’s point of view”.
- meaning, we should see the world through someone else’s eyes. - 5Informants vs CollaboratorsInformants: A person whom which an anthropologist studies and examines from a distance to gain insight into their culture, language, or dialect. An informant refers to the one-sided relationship between the anthropologist and the person being studied.
Collaborators:
The way that an anthropologist converses with its collaborators or culture oriented people to gain knowledge or common interest between both parties. It relies on the idea that the anthropologist and the people being studied are working together. Anthropologists have moved from calling the people they work with “informants,” to now using the word “collaborators.” The shift tells us how anthropologists have talked about the people they are studying differently over time since they find collaborating is a better approach than a distanced, single approach to the culture group that is being studied.
Example: In Julie Chu’s excerpt, Equation Fixation, she is described to be working as a collaborator due to her action of walking around the markets and conversing with vendors to gain data about their culture and comparison o - 6RapportThe relationship between an anthropologist and the person being studied. This relationship has a sense of trust and understanding between the two people. These people are concerned with learning each other ideals and cultures.
This type of relationship is apparent in most anthropologists’ fieldwork in which they encounter and form a relationship with the people their studying, such as Richard Lee’s relationship with the Bushman. - 7HolismHolism argues that in order to understand society, you have to look at all aspects of it as a whole, rather than viewing elements in isolation. It's not so much about seeking to understand society as a whole, but instead that the only way to understand society is to look at all these factors as a whole
Ex. “Equation Fixations” Julie Chu mistakenly went into shopping transactions with the belief that they were nothing more than transactions. She misjudged the actual power shopping has of forming and transforming social interactions. The art of haggling became customary and almost a required part of the purchasing and social transaction. - 8Imponderabilia of Everyday LifeGoing inside a person’s thoughts by actively observing and experiencing their life as they, the observed, live it. Anthropologists have to study how and what the natives think, not just what they do everyday.
Ex: In Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Malinowski describes his experience of fully immersing himself in the native culture and why he is researching this way. He describes imponderabilia of everyday life as, “there is a series of phenomena of great importance which cannot possibly be recorded by questioning or computing documents, but have to be observed in their full actuality. [...] Here belong such things as the routine of man’s working day, the details of his body,...” Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Malinowski; pg. 18 - 9Fieldworklong term, fine grained research, done in situ, and being experiential, not experimental
- 10Rejection of Positivismthe ways that anthropologists started to question the idea that there were universal laws of human kind and instead focused on the idea that all knowledge is partial and situated.
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