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- 11 @1001:2021
- ~~DECKJS~~ ====== Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwork” ====== ===== Anthropologists are professional strangers—The method of “fieldwo... iences, like sociology? What do you think? ===== Anthropologists at work ===== Anthropologists study many of the same things as other social sciences, but they believe that one m
- emic_and_etic
- mic--etic distinction is useful to understand how anthropologists conceptualize ethnographic description and analys... perspectives are necessary for anthropology, and anthropologists differ on how much they emphasize one or the othe
- 2024 @3621:2024
- blindness. In this class, we learn the main tools anthropologists use to understand communicative action through et
- welcome_to_the_seminar @3621:2024
- gy. with unique insights into the questions other anthropologists want to answer. --- While in many ways this cla
- 3 @3621:2024
- cially what anthropology has to offer this study. Anthropologists join with sociolinguists on very general question
- the_social_life_of_language @3621:2024
- evaluating. ==== Guidelines for this essay ==== Anthropologists of language and communication are also ethnograph... his class is different in lots of different ways. Anthropologists always assume that people are different. So the c
- exposition_of_a_key_concept @3621:2024
- have encountered a number of abstract ideas that anthropologists of communication use to capture and analyze the s
- description_of_a_speech_event @3621:2024
- surprised to learn that one of the main ways that anthropologists examine language and communication is by producin
- 7.2 @1002:2022
- 59). * What would Carsten say about this? Most anthropologists would say that kinship is whatever a society reco
- mills-methods
- ular to a cultural context. It is more common for anthropologists to use another of Mill’s methods: “the method of ... many written in the days of Evans-Pritchard, when anthropologists tended to assume that each society existed in rel
- 5.2 @1002:2022
- , etc…. What are we talking about? Historically, anthropologists have used the term **kinship** as a replacement f... 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 the... ethnocentric biases of Europeans (including past anthropologists), and - by studying people’s genealogical conne
- 2022 @1002:2022
- way of life and set of roles in a system. Hence, anthropologists conclude (1) there is no right, correct, or norma... eated and continue to create for themselves, then anthropologists say we each must ask //why do I have to be this w
- 1.2 @1002:2022
- ggest problems are global in nature. I hope that anthropologists are part of finding solutions, but not because anthropology 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 don... that be.”** (Marx [1843] 1978, 13) ===== How do anthropologists think? ===== An anthropologist begins by listeni
- 1.1 @1002:2022
- se they come from people who sound like experts. Anthropologists are skeptical of big, easy, simple, one-size-fits... 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 the ... d readings ===== Every week we will read work by anthropologists, and all of the selected works we we read are ava
- 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