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the 5th subfield is? |
Applied anthropology - can be found in any of the other branches. |
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Where is the "field" |
- a place - where the ppl are |
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What is fieldwork? |
- process or method - answers to a specific research question - work done in the field |
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what is participant - observation? |
- paying attention to your own cultures at those moments where you don't quite know the rules - anthropologist lives in and studies another culture over a long period of time - process of learning (exposure to routine daily life of fieldwork) |
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what are the 2 types of data? |
1) Emic 2) Etic |
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What is Emic data? |
- local perspective (what insiders know about their own culture) - Is subjective (insiders pov) - Enthography |
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What is Etic data? |
- tool of comparison and understanding - analytical framework - outsiders point of view on data (objective, expert) - enthology - cultural universal |
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What is phonetics? |
study of the sounds of all language |
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what is phonemics? |
study of the sounds of a particular language |
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what is positivism (Etic) |
- objective, identifiable methods. "real" world - social world is patterned, orderly, is governed by rules |
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what is phenomenology (Emic) |
- insiders attached to own actions - context in which ppl act - particular, unique - we create our own social relatives |
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what are 2 examples of "old" theories in anthropology |
- Cultural Evolution - Diffusionism (diffusion) |
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What is Cultural Evolution? |
- all societies/cultures pass through stages of development - all cultures exist on the progression - change -> evolve simple to complex |
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What is Diffusion? |
- cultures interact and change - humans don't invent much new - field work (Emic) -historical particularism |