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- 4.3.2 @1002:2019
- eeker in Ireland (Thomas 2019) ## Thinking like anthropologists * Anthropologists are interested in every aspect of human experience, and see these as part of a totality. * Anthropologists place particular aspects of human experience---t... a larger context, as a part of a larger whole. * Anthropologists are diverse and eclectic. They don't necessarily
- 2020 @1002:2020
- through our words and deeds. Social and cultural anthropologists are engaged in both cultural description and cul... butes to understanding the world and changing it. Anthropologists challenge many dominant beliefs about how the wo... pology on human experience through a study of how anthropologists have contributed to debates on contemporary issu... xchange and Investment Among the Tiv.” //American Anthropologist//, New Series, 57 (1): 60–70. doi:[[https://doi.o
- what-we-will-do @1002:2020
- ===== Anthropology is vast. Anything people do, anthropologists study. So you could potentially study any number... ngs about people’s lives and learn to see them as anthropologists do. In this class, we only cover a few of the things that anthropologists talk about. Each topic complements the others, a... ther they help us to demonstrate the perspectives anthropologists apply to the qualitative study of people’s every
- 1.2 @1002:2024
- is not the solution to anyone’s problems ===== **Anthropologists are not experts. They are the enemy of expertise... ferent and everyone is in a different situation. Anthropologists employ an **ethnographic imagination**. To learn... culture is true (Marx [1843b] 1978, 222). ===== Anthropologists ask ‘what if?’ ===== Anthropology can reveal the fictions of a society, including those of the anthropologist. Anthropologists always begin by saying, “What I
- 1.2 @1002:2022
- ggest problems are global in nature. I hope that anthropologists are part of finding solutions, but not because a... nthropology has solutions to complex problems. **Anthropologists are not experts. They are the enemy of expertise... o answers, though. That would be truly hopeless. Anthropologists always start from the assumption that - we do... that be.”** (Marx [1843] 1978, 13) ===== How do anthropologists think? ===== An anthropologist begins by listen
- further_information_about_this_unit @1002:2018
- o introduce the key concepts and methods by which anthropologists draw conclusions and explain people's behavior, ... iences. * Understand the key concepts with which anthropologists define society, social form, and social change. * Understand how anthropologists apply these key concepts to contemporary situati... ethnographic description and analysis and see how anthropologists draw conclusions from it. * Be able to find et
- research-exercise @1002:2020
- jective ===== Find a scholarly publication by an anthropologist on the topic of gifts, exchange, economic organiz... ship. It asks you to find scholarly writing by an anthropologist, read it, and analyze its argument to identify th... aphy crawl and find a scholarly publication by an anthropologist((Bohannan’s work on spheres of exchange has been ... xchange and Investment Among the Tiv.” //American Anthropologist//, New Series, 57 (1): 60–70. doi:[[https://doi.o
- 4.2 @1002:2024
- n (1995) ===== Draw your family ===== Do as the anthropologists do: Make a [[:kinship diagrams|kinship diagram]]... r relationship to each. **Did you know:** No two anthropologists make kinship diagrams the same way. There is no ... ship is essential or fixed. ===== Why did early anthropologists ignore all these exceptions? ===== The study of... eals a lot about the history of the field. Early anthropologists focused on kinship because - it challenged th
- 1.2 @1002:2018
- ces you to anthropology, and how to think like an anthropologist. * We, the teachers and tutors, are also making a... people live. ## Claude Levi-Strauss, classical anthropologist ## From his memoir *Tristes Tropiques* (1973 [19... pology has always been haunted by melancholy. The anthropologist was one who observed "a world on the wane." * No... Sahlins 1992, 13). As a Kewa leader once told an anthropologist (paraphrase): "You know what we mean by 'developm
- 5.2 @1002:2022
- , etc…. What are we talking about? Historically, anthropologists have used the term **kinship** as a replacement ... mean their birth to parents. ===== Why did early anthropologists ignore all these exceptions? ===== The study of... eals a lot about the history of the field. Early anthropologists focused on kinship because - it challenged th... ethnocentric biases of Europeans (including past anthropologists), and - by studying people’s genealogical conn
- 1.1 @1002:2024
- live in a particular set of social conditions. **Anthropologists write ethnographies**, or qualitative descriptio... e just a small sample of the kinds of things that anthropologists study. Each module is an example of how anthropologists think, and why anthropology matters to understanding th... d readings ===== Every week we will read work by anthropologists, and all of the selected works we we read are av
- 1.1 @1002:2022
- se they come from people who sound like experts. Anthropologists are skeptical of big, easy, simple, one-size-fit... e just a small sample of the kinds of things that anthropologists study. Each module is an example of how anthropologists think, and why anthropology matters to understanding th... d readings ===== Every week we will read work by anthropologists, and all of the selected works we we read are av
- welcome @1002:2020
- and aims to give students an understanding of how anthropologists think. By the end of this semester, you should not only understand what anthropology is and what anthropologists do, but you should also feel like you know how to think like an anthropologist. You will be then able to apply anthropology as a... /strong></html>, and furthermore that our work as anthropologists brings us into contact with many communities who
- 2022 @1002:2022
- way of life and set of roles in a system. Hence, anthropologists conclude (1) there is no right, correct, or norm... eated and continue to create for themselves, then anthropologists say we each must ask //why do I have to be this ... xchange and Investment Among the Tiv.” //American Anthropologist//, New Series, 57 (1): 60–70. https://doi.org/10.... s in Transnational Families in Nepal.” //American Anthropologist// 121 (4): 884–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.1
- 4.1.1 @1002:2019
- f this nature *magic*. E. E. Evans-Pritchard, an anthropologist who studied the people who live in what is today ... South Sudan, has been very influential in helping anthropologists think about magic in social terms. ## Evans-Pri... t system. ## The function of witchcraft Social anthropologists loved talking about witchcraft and sorcery. It s... ican Societies: An Essay in Comparison.” American Anthropologist 54 (1): 18–29. doi:10.1525/aa.1952.54.1.02a00040.