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Cultures impose symbolic categories on different ways of speaking: some words are obscene, some topics ... me to realize that they see the world in distinct ways. ### Cultures aren't isolates * No human popul... s in isolation; throughout history, people have always interacted across borders (see Lesser 1961). * C... o emphasize the coherence of culture. * In some ways, ethnography is a form of knowledge that emphasiz

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ted to IQ scores! It isn’t! (And IQ is garbage anyways.) Why are explanations based on biology so power... posed ideas about human difference ===== In many ways, this society is still stuck in the same debate f... ve, physical differences. Differences in people’s ways of life are explained as the result of these phys

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---of scholarship. We seek to understand people's ways of life, their actions and behaviors in the real ... also argue that to understand why people live the ways they do, and why humanity is so wonderfully diverse and why it is always changing in unexpected ways, we have to understand how people think about themselves, their experiences

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ltures adapt to the same environment in different ways * Hopi and Navajo (Lowie 1917, 50–51) * Nat... s part of people’s cultures, too * One of the ways in which societies differ is the kinds of tools t

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o understand people’s societies, communities, and ways of life in all of their diversity. This class wi... a community? * What can go wrong? * Is this always a good idea? This leads us also to think more ab

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ivism sufficient for understanding other people's ways of life? Go to Canvas and answer the survey que

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are rational maximizers of utility. * People always perform means–ends calculations on every choice ... s a series of practical problems and people are always trying to solve them in more efficient ways. ===== There is another practical solution to subsistence ... ions, but that doesn’t mean every technology is always an improvement ===== * Foragers do adopt new t

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t adults were fluent. This doesn’t mean that we always understood each other. For instance, for my resea... * Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz wanted to understand the ways in which undocumented immigrants from Mexico made... bservation fieldwork Ethnographic writing must always balance etic and emic descriptions. ## Referenc

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* Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz wanted to understand the ways in which undocumented immigrants from Mexico made... bservation fieldwork Ethnographic writing must always balance [[:emic and etic|emic and etic]] descript

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