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Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural …
perspectives.americananthro.orgBob feels that language is very important to cultural identity. He believes that if one loses language, one also loses important information about wildlife, indigenous plants, and ways of being. As a member . of a First Nations tribe, Bob believes that words have deep cultural meaning. Most importantly, he views English as the language of commerce.
Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural …
perspectives.americananthro.orgPerspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology by Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, Laura Tubelle de González is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Under this CC BY-NC 4.0 copyright license you are free to:
Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural …
perspectives.americananthro.orgWhen anthropologists conduct fieldwork, they gather data. An important tool for gathering anthro-pological data is . ethnography —the in-depth study of everyday practices and lives of a people. Ethnog-raphy produces a detailed description of the studied group at a particular time and location, also known as a “ thick description
Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural …
perspectives.americananthro.orgPerspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology by Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, Laura Tubelle de González is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. Under this CC BY-NC 4.0 copyright license you are free to:
Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural …
perspectives.americananthro.orgtechniques. This interdisciplinary perspective allows for cross-cultural comparison of human diets. In several decades of anthropological research on subsistence systems, anthropologists have observed that the quest for food affects almost every aspect of daily life. For instance, every person plays a role in soci-
Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural …
perspectives.americananthro.orgmarriage, these concepts help us compare family systems across cultures. KINSHIP AND DESCENT . ... Typically, people must marry someone outside their own lineage. In figures 3 and 4, the shaded symbols represent people who are in the same lineage. The unshaded symbols represent people who have married into the lineage.