Cited: Tamakoshi‚ Laura. "The Anthropologist in the field." . N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 16 Oct 2013. Nanda‚ Serena ‚ and Richard L. Warms. Culture Counts‚ A Concise Introduction To Cultural Anthropology. 2cnd. Wadsworth Pub Co‚ 2012. print. Jennifer Balliet Professor Reilly Cultural Anthropology 10/15/2013
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San “Bushmen” VS. Western Society Teresa Billinger ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Tristan Marble May 13‚ 2013 The San “Bushmen” of the Kalahari Desert live in the Southwest area of Africa in diverse environments with their kinship being of a nuclear family mostly of bilateral descent. There are three behaviors that impact the culture which are affluence‚ immediate return system‚ and generalized reciprocity. When compared to Western society culture there are significant differences
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example of the application of cultural materialism to the Hindu taboo against eating beef.7 5 Kelly Rothenberg‚ "Tattooed People as Taboo Figures in Modern Society‚" 1996‚ BME/Psyber City‚ 18 Jan. 2005 . 6 Sigmund Freud‚ Totem and Taboo (New York: Random‚ 1918) 17. 7 Marvin Harris‚ "The Cultural Ecology of India’s Sacred Cattle‚" Current Anthropology 1992‚ 7:51-66‚ qtd. in Stacy McGrath‚ "Ecological Anthropology‚" Anthropological Theories: A Guide
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Anthropology is the study of human nature in society and how we as a society develop and grow. Anthropologists are those people who study this nature and develop theories and such explaining how things influence the growth of a society. Anthropologists take a wide approach to understanding the different aspects of the human experience. They want to know the why’s: the reasons why things happen and work in a variety of fields and workplaces alike. Anthropologists offer a lot in terms of information
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with the reoccurring appearance of the term in class‚ the importance behind it becomes more evident. If an individual has the perspective of being ethnocentric‚ then they limit themselves because of the mindset they have on the world. In cultural anthropology it is of great importance that researchers do not take on an ethnocentric perspective‚ because they learn more if they can set their own views and biases aside and focus on a different culture. Ethnocentrism leads to a narrow-minded perspective
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George Gmelch’s article‚ “Nice Girls Don’t Talk To Rastas” (2012) explores the idea of naïve realism‚ and the affect it can have on an anthropology study that is being performed. Naïve realism is a theory that every person perceives the world in the same way and when this way of thinking is used‚ like in the article‚ negative repercussions can occur. (p.35) This article explores the concepts of different societies in the world live by different norms and cultures than what others are used to‚ and
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how the ‘self’ is constructed in relation to the other. This struggle between identity and academic enquiry results in issues confronting the audience and the representation of one’s own society. It is commonly accepted that the discipline of Anthropology is partly based on the study of the other‚ born from Post-Colonialism‚ where the western seeks to study the exotic lands‚ the colonised civilisations‚ or the others. Thus‚ it was originally Western anthropologists that study the colonised civilisations
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The study of humankind in all times (temporal) and places (spatial) Past and contemporary society’s Portrayal of endless cultural variations humans are capable of manifesting Helps us understand what it is to be human How are we diff from animals and plants Explains the broadest possible way what it means to be
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HUNTER-GATHERER RESEARCH TRADITIONS Barry S. Hewlett and Jason M. Fancher Washington State University‚ Vancouver For: Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. Vicki Cummings‚ Peter Jordan and Marek Zvelebil‚ eds. Oxford University Press Biographic information: Barry Hewlett is Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University‚ Vancouver. He received a PhD from the University of California‚ Santa Barbara in 1987 and has had appointments at Tulane University
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imposes cultural traditions and policies that the researcher may have never been imposed to in the past. These types of works or studies that ethnographers conduct are called fieldworks; and they help researchers learn the ways and customs of a certain group or kin outside a society. The researcher’s method of fully understanding the culture of the group of individuals they study is by integrating into their assemblage or in other words living amid them for approximately two years. Cultural Anthropologist
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