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MALINOWSKI Coral Gardens and Their Magic 15 gennaio 2008

Ethnography (???? ethnos = people and ???fe?? graphein = writing) is the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. Ethnography presents the results of a holistic research method founded on the idea that

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MALINOWSKI Coral Gardens and Their Magic 15 gennaio 2008

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    1. MALINOWSKI Coral Gardens and Their Magic 15 gennaio 2008

    2. Ethnography (???? ethnos = people and ???fe?? graphein = writing) is the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. Ethnography presents the results of a holistic research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other. The genre has both formal and historical connections to travel writing and colonial office reports. Several academic traditions, in particular the constructivist and relativist paradigms, employ ethnographic research as a crucial research method. Many cultural anthropologists consider ethnography the essence of the discipline

    3. “The linguistic problem before the ethnographer is to give as full a presentation of language as of any other aspect of culture.” (p. vii) Who is the ethnographer? What is language to ethnography? What does M. mean by “the pre-literate stage” of language?

    4. To study language out of its context is FUTILE. What is the function of language? (viii) Why does M. criticizes traditional approaches to language? Vs. Grammarians Vs. Phylologists He claims for an anthropological approach to language.

    5. What is the role of the Anthropologist in studying language? (viii-ix) “to give a full description of language as an aspect and ingredient of culture” He compares the work of the anthropologist to that of the missionary.

    6. He feels the need to present language “woven into a continuous story” ? intertextuality, interdiscursivity What are his sources? Other authors, scholars, researchers ? theory (x-xi) His linguistic experiences in the field (x-xi) The method of the ethnographer (p. 3)

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