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What is ethnography?
Culture writing - the anthropological description of peoples and cultures from the perspective of the subject
What is anthropology?
The study of what it is to be human.
Name one of the 3 aspects of the Cultural Trifecta (3 fundamental aspects of the human experience).
What people do (cultural practice), What people know (cultural knowledge), what people make and use (cultural artefacts)
TRUE OR FALSE: Phenomenology believes in the existence of one absolute truth, and values logic and empiricism.
False - that's positivism!
True or false: positivism generally takes a quantitative approach to research.
True!
What's the difference between 'emic' and 'etic'?
Etic - scientific/outsiders perspective, Emic - local/insiders perspective.
Name one of the three things that should be included in field notes.
Reflexive notes, descriptive notes, representations of participants in their own words.
TRUE OR FALSE: ethnographic texts are generally written in past tense.
FALSE - they are generally written in present tense.
What is ethnocentrism?
Cultural/ethnic bias that involves judging another culture based on ones own standards.
What is meant by 'epistemology'?
A theory of knowledge; it concerns how we perceive, attain and develop knowledge.
What is participant observation?
Long term immersion in a community where the anthropologist uses their whole self to learn about the values, beliefs and practices from the pov of the community
What is reflexivity?
Conscious awareness of our emotions, thoughts, biases, perspectives, etc.
