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- Anthropologists are people studying people @1001:2020
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== Anthropologists are people studying people ====== ===== Anthropologists are people studying people ===== Ryan Schram ANTH 1001:... of the anthropologist Consider for instance how anthropologists learn most of what they know. Most anthropologists rely on a few "[[:key informants|key informants]]," especially
- Welcome to anthropology @1001:2020
- versity. This class will show you what questions anthropologists ask about being human, and what perspective they ... question has many different possible answers, and anthropologists continue to debate it. In this class, I want everyone to listen to what different anthropologists say on this question, and I want everyone to deci... === Module 1: What makes us human? ===== What do anthropologists, especially “cultural anthropologists,” study?
- Megadeath @1002
- 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---th... a larger context, as a part of a larger whole. * Anthropologists are diverse and eclectic. They don't necessarily
- About this seminar @3601:2020
- rtments of anthropology, sociology, and folklore. Anthropologists in Western academic institutions tend to research... anthropology has historically been very eclectic. Anthropologists are more willing to cross boundaries between fiel... ion what counts as anthropological knowledge (and anthropologists like it that way). This creates a big problem for us as anthropologists: who cares about anthropology? If there aren’t re
- Mind
- NTH 1001]] is the ethical aspect of anthropology. Anthropologists are social scientists. Like scientists, they are ... al beliefs many people have about their own mind. Anthropologists have historically tended to assume that most peop... experience itself, which is mostly the same. As anthropologists we are open to different ways of living, but not ... sarily different ways of being in the world. Many anthropologists have challenged this as a double standard. We ten
- City air makes you free @1002:2018
- y is not linear or progressive. In other words, anthropologists argue that you cannot understand life in the cont... he end of this week, I hope to have explained why anthropologists for the most part are very skeptical that there i... did not look at cultural differences the way that anthropologists do. His views about social change are ethnocentri... nature. ## Modernization theory ## In the past, anthropologists and sociologists wanted to know how societies bec
- Melford E. Spiro and the strange and the familiar in ethnography
- e, and the strange familiar, has been employed by anthropologists not only as a pedagogical device, but also as a s... ing able to relinquish "the view from here," then anthropologists have believed that they could overcome that quand... shared this specific view of ethnography is. Many anthropologists do not believe that social and cultural generaliz... the "view from everywhere" is something that many anthropologists want ethnography to have. Rather than moving to a
- Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
- re. The reason for adopting this doctrine is that anthropologists generally start from the view that the patterns w... thers lack education or love their children less. Anthropologists would argue that this pattern persists because of... people who do it. This is a crucial distinction. Anthropologists do not seek to justify any one culture's practice... endorsement of the value of a cultural practice. Anthropologists only seek to understand why a particular pattern
- Key informants
- # Key informants Most anthropologists rely on a few “key informants,” especially in the beginning of fieldwork. S... fic areas of life, like medicine or hunting. But anthropologists are often drawn to people who have thought a lot ... his also alienates them from their own community. Anthropologists are professional strangers, and they are estrange
- Meyer Fortes
- one of the founding generation of British social anthropologists. He and his contemporaries were some of the first anthropologists who were themselves trained by anthropologists. For Fortes, anthropology was a distinct form of science, with its
- Modernity
- "still" stuck in the past. There are even many anthropologists who look to hunter-gatherers and other societies ... the prehistoric past. And who is the "we"? These anthropologists assume that they and their readers are distinct f... nalyzing other people's ways of life. Even when anthropologists use the term modernity, they put it in "scare quo
- Draft @playground
- 5 [p. 255-256] for more information. ## How do anthropologists use these kinds of categories to understand actua... same as understanding it holistically. At best, anthropologists use these terms descriptively. They are ideal typ... -gatherers are "our contemporary ancestors" (Some anthropologists say this about every indigenous society; e.g. @ch
- Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” @1001:2020
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” ====== ===== Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwo... Ethnography is a a form of writing that cultural anthropologists use to help people understand a way of life as a
- Environmental determinism and cultural determinism @1001:2020
- 2015, 255–56) for more information. ===== How do anthropologists use these kinds of categories to understand actua... same as understanding it holistically. At best, anthropologists use these terms descriptively. They are ideal typ... -gatherers are “our contemporary ancestors” (Some anthropologists say this about every indigenous society; e.g. Cha
- How do anthropologists think? @1001:2020
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== How do anthropologists think? ====== ===== How do anthropologists think? ===== Ryan Schram ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology We... iscussed and ask "So, what? Who cares?" * Why do anthropologists care about this topic? What is important about it
