1) The Austronesian languages are spoken throughout Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. I believe the language started to spread in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia and the Philippians and made its way to Madagascar. Because most of these countries are islands the language would have distributed by traveling, trading, and immigrating
2) Participant observation has both its pros and cons. One of the strengths of this approach is that the researcher who does the observation does gain a personal perspective and familiarity with the culture. One of the cons is that the observation could be considered time consuming. To really learn and understand a culture, it would take some time to collect data to answer particular …show more content…
Language is associated with symbols and words that are communicated through humans to learn about past and present experiences and to share knowledge. Call systems between primates do not share ideas about the past or present because they are not humans, however, their calls could signal a threat coming which would be related to future knowledge or animal instincts. ASL, however, is the same as spoken language. For people who use sign language, this is their only way of communication. The emotion behind the sign language is lost but ideas and stories can be “spoken” through signs of a hand. The language behind ASL does have its difference between spoken English language creating a gap between how accurate the languages relate to each other.
5) An informant is someone that shares a personal perspective with an ethnographer. An informant is used more for qualitative research. A respondent differentiates from an informant. It is based on someone who answers survey questions. The respondent’s identity is kept private for unbiased data. Respondents correspond more with quantitative …show more content…
The fish living in the water would want to learn and understand more about the unknown like Anthropologists who more commonly researching other countries culturally. This relates to the etic method and its concepts and how ideas are studied through an outsider point of view. The fish is studying the outside and not really looking on this inside of its “culture.” The emic method is one where the cultural studies are defined in terms of an individual who lives within a culture which is opposite of what Kluckholn is saying about the fish. The fish is unaware of its own surroundings which limits the fish’s ability to embrace its customs and traditions. If we compare this to American culture, the fish could be the Americans who are only living life through an insider perspective and not looking as an outsider in to get a better perspective of their own culture, beliefs, and traditions. Looking in on a culture and studying it opens up different opportunities to learn different ways of living, beliefs, ideas, religions, and
2) Participant observation has both its pros and cons. One of the strengths of this approach is that the researcher who does the observation does gain a personal perspective and familiarity with the culture. One of the cons is that the observation could be considered time consuming. To really learn and understand a culture, it would take some time to collect data to answer particular …show more content…
Language is associated with symbols and words that are communicated through humans to learn about past and present experiences and to share knowledge. Call systems between primates do not share ideas about the past or present because they are not humans, however, their calls could signal a threat coming which would be related to future knowledge or animal instincts. ASL, however, is the same as spoken language. For people who use sign language, this is their only way of communication. The emotion behind the sign language is lost but ideas and stories can be “spoken” through signs of a hand. The language behind ASL does have its difference between spoken English language creating a gap between how accurate the languages relate to each other.
5) An informant is someone that shares a personal perspective with an ethnographer. An informant is used more for qualitative research. A respondent differentiates from an informant. It is based on someone who answers survey questions. The respondent’s identity is kept private for unbiased data. Respondents correspond more with quantitative …show more content…
The fish living in the water would want to learn and understand more about the unknown like Anthropologists who more commonly researching other countries culturally. This relates to the etic method and its concepts and how ideas are studied through an outsider point of view. The fish is studying the outside and not really looking on this inside of its “culture.” The emic method is one where the cultural studies are defined in terms of an individual who lives within a culture which is opposite of what Kluckholn is saying about the fish. The fish is unaware of its own surroundings which limits the fish’s ability to embrace its customs and traditions. If we compare this to American culture, the fish could be the Americans who are only living life through an insider perspective and not looking as an outsider in to get a better perspective of their own culture, beliefs, and traditions. Looking in on a culture and studying it opens up different opportunities to learn different ways of living, beliefs, ideas, religions, and