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Ethnography
WEEK 2
REVIEW

Culture

Linguistics

Archaeology

Physical Anthropology
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WHAT IS CULTURE?
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WHAT ARE SOME WAYS WE SHOW CULTURE?
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WHAT CULTURE ARE WE STUDYING THIS YEAR?
Cultural Anthropologists
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Study people from all over the world
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Culture in America
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What might people from other cultures think
is different?
ETHNOCENTRISM: Judging others by our own
understanding of the world.
Brazilian culture is different from
American culture, one is not better.
Ethnography

How anthropologists study humans
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They make ethnographies, or descriptions of the culture made by
studying people very closely.
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HOW?
Going into the field
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Anthropologists study people “in the field”.
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They commit to living with the people they
study, usually for at least an entire year.

Why do they stay for so long?
Need to observe and
participate in the
culture so they can
learn
Language

Sometimes have to learn a new language

Portuguese

Madagascar: Malagasy
Review

What is ethnography?

How do anthropologists study culture?

What have you learned about Brazil so far?
Activity: Ethnography in Action
Today YOU will be ethnographers, AND the ones under study.