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- Tell me a story...: An analysis of qualitative data @1001:2020
- he help of a few friendly fieldwork informants to understand the situation that unfolded when he bought the Ch... t, so that your reader (that is, your tutor) will understand the cultural norms and practices which the storyt... 's culture. What would your tutor need to know to understand the point of the narrative, that is, why it is a ... storyteller, in enough detail that the reader can understand what you want to say? * Have you identified seve
- ANTH 1001: Introduction to anthropology @1001:2020
- e and the humanities---of scholarship. We seek to understand people's ways of life, their actions and behavior... at people do every day. Yet we also argue that to understand why people live the ways they do, and why humanit... is always changing in unexpected ways, we have to understand how people think about themselves, their experien... r people in a distinct way. Therefore, you cannot understand contemporary trends from a single culture's point
- Putting it all together @1002:2018
- s this diversity through the lens of culture. To understand many contemporary issues, you need to understand culture and how culture influences how people think and act.... is strange for someone from another culture. * To understand someone's cultural system, we have to see it from... uals think, act and cooperate with each other. To understand why people live a certain way, we must look at ho
- Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
- after their language, which the Greeks could not understand, and considered to be just "bar bar bar bar," tha... cultural relativism**. This simply means that to understand any one pattern of behavior within a culture, it ... of an integrated system and all the parts work to understand the whole. So, for instance, if a society has a p... a cultural practice. Anthropologists only seek to understand why a particular pattern is maintained. Moreover,
- Religion and Economy
- es raise critical questions for anyone wishing to understand either. In classical social theories, religion an... ws, Weber argued social scientists should seek to understand society from an individual's perspective, and tha... is now generally accepted that we cannot seek to understand processes of social change at a purely local leve
- Why do so many, perhaps all, cultures have religions? @2667
- a group, and being part of a social whole.)). To understand what this means, we need to understand Durkheim's argument that the social fact of the category of the sacred... * Even in spite of the facts, people only could understand the process of recycling water through symbols.
- Is African Christianity just 'African culture'? @2667
- othing for granted. Just as soon as you think you understand it, it changes! ## A brief history: Some of the ... o with the theories that outside observers use to understand African religion. In the middle of the 20th cent
- About this seminar @6916:2020
- ach week we will come together to help each other understand a set of readings better. Each week’s readings re... arguing for ideas which many people found hard to understand and hard to accept. They were breaking new ground
- “God’s taboo”: The heteroglossia of evangelism in Methodist missionary narratives from British New Guinea, circa 1890 @talks
- ious cultural settings have found that Christians understand their beliefs as a personal commitment, yet also ... of the first duties of a missionary is to try to understand the people among whom he works” (Codrington 1891,
- Taparoro: Missionary Translation and its Rivals in the Coral Sea Contact Zone @talks
- oro as they call it, was something they could not understand. (Field 1892, 6) [T]hey would have 'taparoro' or... Others said, “We can't hear,” meaning, “We cannot understand.” (H. L. Bromilow quoted in Bromilow 1893, 6) ##
- Welcome back to 1002! @1002:2018
- nthropology's key concept - culture - helps us to understand what happens when different societies influence e... uals think, act and cooperate with each other. To understand why people live a certain way, we must look at ho
- Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” @1001:2020
- The Lions ===== * Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz wanted to understand the ways in which undocumented immigrants from Me... that cultural anthropologists use to help people understand a way of life as a cultural system. An ethnograp
- Emic and etic descriptions @1001:2020
- The Lions ===== * Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz wanted to understand the ways in which undocumented immigrants from Me... that cultural anthropologists use to help people understand a way of life as a cultural system. An ethnograp
- The charisma of the coronavirus
- think about how this semester went if we want to understand what we have learned about anthropology. The cha... hropology has much that it can say to help people understand this global pandemic. Anthropology, I argue, is s
- Emic and etic
- nd etic The emic--etic distinction is useful to understand how anthropologists conceptualize ethnographic de... the concepts that those people themselves use to understand what they do. Both emic and etic perspectives a
