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non-judgmental approach was prevalent throughout all three videos. What is Anthropology; explores how the study of anthropology “finds the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange”, it presented aspects of humanity in which most would find strange or disturbing. I thought that the video identified anthropology with the study of what defines a normal human being. In Doing Anthropology: Fieldwork; through first-hand experience; anthropologist connected aspects of culture and social life

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Leslie White, Edward Wilson, Clifford Geertz, and Sally Slocum demonstrate different scientific and humanistic approaches, as they explore how humans should be studied and understood. In order to further understand the scientific and humanistic approaches of these social scientist, a more in depth examination at how these different approaches are defined is essential. Erickson and Murphy (2013) establish science as a system in which “people and God are treated as secondary to nature” and humanism

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What Is Anthropology? “The study of humankind in all times and places.” (Haviland et. la p.3)“Anthropology focuses on the interconnections and interdependence of all aspects of the human experience in all places, in the present and deep into the past”. (Haviland et. la. p.3) This helps to understand past civilizations and cultures and how they’ve come to be what they are now. There are many fields in anthropology, such as cultural, linguistic, physical, and forensic anthropology. When meshed

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the study of human culture and society, began with the earliest speculation of the humankind. It developed and prospered along with people’s understanding of the world, as the earliest scholars relied on their intelligence and cognition to explain social phenomena. Through the use of rigorous scientific methods and inductive reasoning, they began to propose theories that might explain their findings conceptually and collectively. Among such was the evolutionist theory implicated that culture followed

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In Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas, Stefan Helmreich explains phenomena of the mysterious sea and observes the community of scientists that study the ocean. Helmreich notes that he works athwart theory as he utilizes theories to explain phenomena while he scrutinizes the theories themselves as phenomena that need contextualization. This methodology employed by Helmreich to conduct the ethnography allows him to make connections between the fields of anthropology and marine microbiology

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fieldwork. Some examples of famous armchair anthropologists include Edward Burnett Tylor and James Frazer. The work of both theorists involved no travelling or conducting of fieldwork. Early anthropology focused on primitive cultures and how societies transformed from being barbaric to civilized. In modern days, anthropology is discovering new topics to study every day and the information relies a great amount on fieldwork and lab work conducted by anthropologists to support their findings. As some of

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object of study, whose way of life could be summarized in an encyclopedia, and their own accounts of their lives were disregarded. Consequently, the field of anthropology has faced criticism from many Indigenous thinkers who view it as, among other things, partial to the anthropologists’ own beliefs and understandings of the world, and a way for anthropologists to gain fame. Interestingly, however, there are also Indigenous voices who appreciate anthropologists for preserving the culture and traditions

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Facebook is searching for an anthropologist. In today’s day and age, Facebook has become a common name in most households. Our users range from early teens all the way through the oldest adults to businesses and friend groups alike. These spanning uses are breaching the earliest plans for Facebook and growing at rates unimaginable. Therefore, we are looking for someone to begin to investigate these outcrops of our social network and discover our true meaning. Facebook has become a way of life.

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TERMSCulture: The system of meanings about the nature of experience that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things, events, activities, and people.Ethnocentrism: The tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of others from the perspective of one’s own culture.Ethnocentric Fallacy: The mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one’s own culture.Relativism:

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Simons-WilsonWorking in the field as a cultural anthropologist requires participant observation, interviews, and observation. (Knight) The etic and emic-orientated styles are two different styles that applied anthropologists use in their field work. The etic-orientated approach is a perspective that in ethnography uses concepts and categories for the anthropologists culture to describe another culture. (Ferraro/Andretta) The emic-orientated approach is a viewpoint in ethnography that uses the concepts

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Critical Medical Anthropology, also known by its shortened form CMA, is a paradigm used currently in medical anthropology. The paradigm integrates political-economic approaches with a culture inclusive analysis of human behaviours based around modern anthropological techniques. CMA is characterized by an anthropological devotion to promoting and improving both the health of the population and the equity of said health. The introduction of critical medical anthropology dates back to the 1970s when

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and any other ‘economic agent’- it is the study of human behavior and choices. Although economics encroaches into many disciplines and addresses a wide variety of problems ranging from stimulating economic growth to finding evidence of cheating in sumo-wrestling, they cannot pretend that they can understand human behavior and can simply solve all the problems of the world alone.An active area of economic research that takes an interdisciplinary approach concentrates on the black-white achievement

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collecting information and data about a culture and is carried out by the researcher immersing themselves in the culture they observing. The researcher becomes known in the community, getting to know and understand the culture in a more intimate and detailed way than would be possible from any other approach. This is done by observing and participating in the community’s daily activities. The method is so effective because the researcher is able to directly approach the people in the community in a natural

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understand the history of political economy in order to understand how neoliberalism operates in the present time. I would add that in a world where its people suffer from inequalities and lack of social justice, there is a continuous necessity to understand those structures of inequalities

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speculation have resulted in anthropologists coming up with numerous methodologies and practices to explain exactly how one needs to approach the study of myth thats best reveals its function. Most of the methods are broken down and explained in a series of steps, much like a lab experiment- as if the only way for anthropologists to write about cultural phenomena is to abstract themselves from myth’s present

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