Essay on anthropology

An anthropologist usually, at the beginning of their career, conduct ethnographic research in a foreign country or remote location to validate themselves as a “bonafide anthropologist” (Brondo 43). Eventually however, the anthropologist will return home often to conduct research around their own familiar ethnic group. Tsuda refers to the anthropologists return to familiar territory as an “Ethnographic homecoming” (Brondo 44). The use of ethnographic methods in the anthropologist’s home or familiar environment is what Tsuda means by “native anthropology”.

The purpose of this reading was to introduce what ethnography is and what exactly do anthropologists do. Ethnography is based on the fact that in order to fully understand a culture, it is best to observe the culture itself and to interact with them over a long period of time. The authors, Monaghan and Just, do fieldwork. Fieldwork is commonly done in small communities with very simplistic lifestyles so to say. In the first chapter, Peter Just did his fieldwork in the Village of Dorro Ntika. In order to be successful with this research, Peter had to build trust and create a good relationship with the people of the native tribe. Meaning Peter was able to learn well beyond the superficial facts. To be an ethnographer one must commit to years

Anthropology, as a discipline in the field of human sciences, is based on certain ethical principles to guide its practitioners through their research. This creates a stable framework on which to start any research project. Avoiding deviation, however, can be complicated. Anthropologists have a responsibility to their field,

My only concern about this online course is knowing how to properly and effectively prepare myself for the exams.

In part four "The Origin of Islam The Social Organization of Mecca and The Origins of Islam, Eric R. Wolf" of the novel, Paradigms for Anthropology by E. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem discussed among the Meccan society, there are thirteen major groups of clients; all associated to a patron family or clan. A couple of the clients were freed slaves, while the rest were outlaws. Again, a couple of the clients were people who had transferred for safety through matrilocal marriage. The Meccan society does have a descendants. The Meccan society was organized by two clans being at the center while the other eight clans being at the outskirts. The purpose was to look closely between those apart of the dissimilar categorizations. The Meccan kinship

This interview is about a person who supported himself throughout college. A person who grew up in poverty, but strived to be rich and be able to support people who were unable to support him. If you are thinking about some celebrity that talked about growing up in a poor neighborhood and wrote a song about it; you would be wrong this interview is about my dad. His name is Roel Banagudos and he grew up in the poverty-driven island of the Philippines called Zamboanga, he works at Amazon and he was able to rise from poverty to prosperity.

When preparing for my fieldwork I read so much about the field, that I had a feeling I had already been there for a while. I had the feeling I already knew the people and knew their motives, because of all the researches I already read. I almost forgot that I went into the field in order to research my hypotheses and to examine perceptions of L.A. women, instead of just confirming my own assumptions. It is important to be aware of one’s one assumptions and ideas about which way your research is heading. An anthropologist also needs to accept that one’s own assumptions and ideas of the field one’s entering, is always the researcher’s subjectivity, and one should be aware of these assumptions in order to be as objective as possible. The strength of anthropology lies in going back to the emic perspective of the research population and the setting one’s academic ego and expectations

Many questions are of concern to the cultural anthropologist. How do various peoples live? What provides meaning for their lives? What are their social values—what they have learned from others about what they consider important and valuable? What are their rules and standards for proper behavior? What is the source and nature of their knowledge about the world and each other? What are their beliefs about the supernatural? What are their marriage and family patterns? What are their political systems? How do they raise their

I want to conduct scientific and humanistic studies of humans. To do so, I need to expand my anthropologist’s

Unlike most quantitative studies that can be done even with an impersonal relationship, ethnography requires researchers to be in close contact with his subjects and have a good one-on-one relationship with them. Building this relationship can be easy, but there are cases when the ethnographer would have a difficult time creating rapport with his subjects. This is particularly true for tribes that have not been in frequent contact with outsiders as well as groups of people don’t take kindly to foreigners living in their lands.

Nothing in life is permanent and what a person might classify as “fixed” is rather the opposite: buildings crumble and give way to the growth of vines and grasses; a thriving city declines as it ages; and human lives reach a point of expiration. Trees burn, animals die, and life in general arrives at a standstill. Any preventative measures taken to avoid death are destined to fail in one way or another, including those that temporarily succeed at prolonging life. Certain species are capable of existing in mass quantities, across every corner of the globe, and are not at risk of extinction. Others are rare. Elusive. Though a fortuitous researcher or an ordinary citizen would be considered “lucky” to catch a glimpse of such creatures, the probability

This chapter was easy to follow for me because in my anthropology class we are studying the chapter on language this we. In my anthropology class I leaden that language is a key aspect to culture. As languages are disappearing and becoming more narrowed down to one language that most people are now speaking we a gradually losing culture. In a sense I can relate to this because my whole family speaks a different language other than english. I am able to fluently speak my fist language punjabi but my brother on the other hand is only able to understand it. He has a difficult time forming words and sentences in punjabi. Because he can’t speak punjabi very well its difficult for him to understand our culture. There are many words he doesn’t understand

Anthropology in the early-twentieth-century contained theories that departed from those of the unilineal evolution in the nineteenth century. The unilineal evolutionary theory argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process; therefore, progressing from being a primitive society to the most advanced, or civilized, in a uniform manner. The theory that species were thought to evolve into increasing complexity was applied to societies’ development to progress from a simple to complex state. It was thought that most societies arrive, ultimately, at a common end as a fully civilized nation. Lewis Henry Morgan, an advocate for and an ethnological scholar of the Iroquois, delineated human culture into three basic stages:

Bronislaw Malinowski, an anthropologist who studied the Papou- Melanesians of New Guinea, strongly states that a published work within the field of ethnography is not considered valid until the ethnographer has fully immersed him/herself within the culture; this means living in the community and participating in daily activities. (Malinowski 1915: 18) According to Malinowski implanting one’s self within a culture is the only way to properly and completely

Known as the founder of modern American anthropology, Franz Boaz who was originally born in Germany developed and furthered his understanding of anthropology in America through his journey from Arctic Canada to the northwestern part of America in the early 1880s. His ethnographic study was aimed at understanding the life the Eskimo community. Boas talks about how the Eskimo community lived in ways they only knew about from their ancestors even in the most challenging times despite the conditions of their environment. He was trying to reveal the concept of how people were not tied down to the environment they lived in as the misconception follows rather the culture that influences the way they go by their life. This concept was conceived by a question he asked at the beginning of the film which was “What determines the behavior of human beings?” which therefore can be