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Cultural Anthropology Week 1 Key Words
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- 1Four fieldsCultural
Archaeology
Linguistic
Physical/ biological - 2Culturethe arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively
- 3cultural relativismthe principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture
- 4ethnocentrismjudging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture
- 5methodslaws, proposed stages of human development, improvement of he human condition
census
sampling methods
map making
interviews
focus groups
video
photography - 6armchair anthropologyanthropologists that do not go out into the field they just use colonial accounts, missionary tales, and explorer's logs
- 7on the verandaoutside observation, watching from afar, not immersing yourself in the culture
- 8off the verandaparticipant observation, importance of learning local languages
- 9participant observationenables researchers to learn about the activities of the people under study in the natural setting through observing and participating in those activities
- 10emicstudy or description of a particular language or culture in terms of its internal elements and their functioning
- 11eticfrom the perspective of one who does not participate in the culture being studied, external observation.
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