Anthropology: The most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences (p. 9)

Chapter 2: Doing Fieldwork

Methodology

• Quantitative
• Qualitative

Anthropologists are outsiders who know something of what it is to be insiders (p. 50)

Emic [versus etic]

Armchair Anth

Fieldwork

• Franz Boas
• Bronislaw Malinowski

Salvage Anth, p. 44

Representation: the way in which a group is depicted in writing or images (p. 39)

Margaret Mead

Napoleon Chagnon

Post 9/11 Media

EX 2.4: How is a 'marginalized group' represented in a news article [like your essay]

Essentialism, p. 52

How do anthropologists represent the people they study and work with? (p. 51)

Research Ethics, p. 50-1

• Informed Consent
• Right to Withdraw
• Confidentiality

Ch. 5: Constructing Families and Social Relations

Ju'hoansi

Trobriand Islanders

Rural Chinese family in Taiwan

Ethnographic Present: although actual descriptions may refer to situations that existed in the past, they will be described as if still that way (p. 130)

Kinship diagram

Bilateral Kinship

What constitutes a nuclear family changes over time (p. 132)