Nature of anthropological fieldwork Flashcards
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Geertz
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deep immersion. balinese cock fight
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Malinowski
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founded fieldwork. Trobriand Islanders. provides holistic perspective
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Boas
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established participant observation
4
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native’s point of view
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malinowski.
one must understand another’s general form of life in order to understand modes of expression, symbolism
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holistic perspective
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the ethnographic belief that an isolated observation cannot be understood unless you understand all aspects of the situation as influences.
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anthro definition
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the study of culture, society and humanity through detailed studies of local life supplement by comparison
