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Studying anthro
Question | Answer |
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Geertz 1973 | Hiding from popo after cockfight, helped him gain access to studying the cockfights in depth and understanding the culture |
Eriksen 2001 | Art vs science, cultural relativism, limitation of ethnocentrism, everything interrelated, empirical |
Boas 1880's | doctrine on cultural relativism, cant put ppl on evolutionary ladder, scientific views, fieldwork |
Malinowski 1915-1918 | Trobriand Island tribes, systematic ethnographic description |
Carrithers 1990 | Anthro is interpretative and based on observation, everything is observed differently, hard to be a science, however must question science and its rules, modified science, should be able to change |
Agar 1996 | Cant have hypotheses or preconcieved ideas or notions, distorts data, goal to paraphrase/interpret behaviour, both verbal and nonverbal, metalanguage, decode behaviour, diff to experiments, spend time with subjects in many contexts |