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Agenda. Review Monaghan & Just Podolefsky & Brown Films Mapping. M & J. M & J. By this point we have a good understanding of the first half of our Introductory text. M & J. By this point we have a good understanding of the first half of our Introductory text.
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Agenda • Review • Monaghan & Just • Podolefsky & Brown • Films • Mapping
M & J • By this point we have a good understanding of the first half of our Introductory text.
M & J • By this point we have a good understanding of the first half of our Introductory text. • Chapter One focused on the primary method of cultural anthropologists.
M & J • By this point we have a good understanding of the first half of our Introductory text. • Chapter One focused on the primary method of cultural anthropologists. • Chapter Two focused on culture.
M & J • By this point we have a good understanding of the first half of our Introductory text. • Chapter One focused on the primary method of cultural anthropologists. • Chapter Two focused on culture. • Chapter Three focused on society.
M & J • We discussed definitions of key vocabulary.
M & J • We discussed definitions of key vocabulary. • We applied our knowledge of these terms by identifying and discussing examples from the film, “Promises.”
M & J • We discussed definitions of key vocabulary. • We applied our knowledge of these terms by identifying and discussing examples from the film, “Promises.” • I will quickly run through these terms for the sake of review… because we have already discussed them in some detail, you should save your questions for office hours.
fieldwork • The hallmark of research in cultural anthropology, it usually involves long-term residence with the people being studied.
ethnography • The intensive and systematic description of a particular society; ethnographic information is usually collected through the method of long-term participant-observation fieldwork.
colonialism • The political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.
participant observation • The primary research method of cultural anthropology, involving long-term observations conducted in natural settings.
serendipitous discovery • Unexpected, unplanned discovery.
serendipitous discovery • Unexpected, unplanned discovery. • See Monaghan & Just, p. 19 for details.
methodological, ethical, epistemological issues • The ethnographic method contains many potential pitfalls.
methodological, ethical, epistemological issues • The ethnographic method contains many potential pitfalls. • Some of these pitfalls are epistemological in nature, and some are ethical in nature.
methodological, ethical, epistemological issues • The ethnographic method contains many potential pitfalls. • Some of these pitfalls are epistemological in nature, and some are ethical in nature. • See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-33 for further details and specific examples.
ethnocentrism • The assumption that one’s own group’s lifestyle, values, and patterns of adaptation are superior to all others.
emic • The research strategy that focuses on native explanations and criteria of significance.
etic • The research strategy that emphasizes the observer’s rather than the natives’ explanations, categories, and criteria of significance.
temporal/spatial context • Historical details that locate an ethnography within time and space.
temporal/spatial context • Historical details that locate an ethnography within time and space. • See Monaghan & Just, pp. 25-26 for more details.
temporal/spatial isolation • The lack of temporal/spatial context.
