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- 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
- mel_spiro
- 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