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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---th... a larger context, as a part of a larger whole. * Anthropologists are diverse and eclectic. They don't necessarily
- 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, an... ther they help us to demonstrate the perspectives anthropologists apply to the qualitative study of people’s everyd
- further_information_about_this_unit @1002:2018
- o introduce the key concepts and methods by which anthropologists draw conclusions and explain people's behavior, v... iences. * Understand the key concepts with which anthropologists define society, social form, and social change. * Understand how anthropologists apply these key concepts to contemporary situatio... ethnographic description and analysis and see how anthropologists draw conclusions from it. * Be able to find eth
- 7.1 @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
- 2020 @1002:2020
- through our words and deeds. Social and cultural anthropologists are engaged in both cultural description and cult... butes to understanding the world and changing it. Anthropologists challenge many dominant beliefs about how the wor... pology on human experience through a study of how anthropologists have contributed to debates on contemporary issue... /strong></html>, and furthermore that our work as anthropologists brings us into contact with many communities whos
- 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
- 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
- what-is-anthro @1002:2020
- pology is the study of what it means to be human. Anthropologists take a global view of humanity. They start from t... follow doctor’s orders when we want to have kids? Anthropologists are not merely interested in detached observation or collection of exotic trivia. **Anthropologists talk back to their own societies** based on what
- 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... /strong></html>, and furthermore that our work as anthropologists brings us into contact with many communities whos
- cultural-critique @1002:2020
- is, people in power. Ideology is a lot like what anthropologists call culture, but with a bite. When we stop and a... on to challenge what they have learned to accept. Anthropologists’ questions are critical questions: Why does it ha
- 4.1.1 @1002:2019
- South Sudan, has been very influential in helping anthropologists think about magic in social terms. ## Evans-Prit... t system. ## The function of witchcraft Social anthropologists loved talking about witchcraft and sorcery. It se
- 0.2 @1002:2019
- e is no single way to be human, and sociocultural anthropologists study the different forms of life that people have created for themselves. ## How do anthropologists think? To think like an anthropologist consists
- welcome_to_anthropology @1002:2018
- social science. It is part science, and part art. Anthropologists wish to observe human beings and their social pat... s point of view. The world needs anthropology and anthropologists, namely you. In this class, Ryan and Terry want t
- 2018 @1002:2018
- t and means different things to different people. Anthropologists are very eclectic, and no two anthropologists are alike in their approach. What they agree on is that the study of