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Anthropology Ch. 9
8 cards·by emarch
Positivism
the view that there is a reality out there that can be known through senses. There is a set of
scientific methods to investigate it.
Objective Knowledge
knowledge about reality that is absolute and true.
Informants
people in a particular culture who work with anthropologists and provide them with insights
about their way of life.
intersubjective meanings
the shared, public symbolic systems of a culture.
reflexivity
critically thinking about the way one thinks, reflecting on ones own experience.
Dialectic of fieldwork
process of building a bridge of understanding between anthropologists and informants so as
to understand each other.
Culture shock
the feeling, akin to pain, that develops in people living in unfamiliar society when they
cannot understand what is happening around them.
Fact
a widely accepted observation, a taken for granted item of common knowledge. Facts do not
speak for themselves.