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The immersion of researches in the lives and cultures of the peoples they are trying to understand in order to comprehend the meanings these people ascribe to their existence.
What are the key components of the def of culture? What is the relationship between culture and behavior? What types of behavior are not cultural?
Some distinctive characteristics of cultural analysis are that it is comparative and holistic: What does this mean? How does it relate to familiarization and DE familiarization? What is the relationship between culture and society?
How do anthropological views of culture differ from Enlightenment ideas of human nature?
How have the objects of anthropological analysis changed since 1945?
How ethnography is usually conducted? Why is ethnography a useful research method? Why is dialogue an important part of ethnography? (Read Dispute in the Donggo and Tricking and Tripping)
What are the limitations and contradictions of Participant-Observation?
Why are ethnocentrism and naïve realism obstacles to ethnography?
What are some potential problems with cultural relativism?
How does the metaphor “illegal” shape our understanding of immigrants?
What are counter-rituals and how do they function?
How does religious belief relate to the ultimate problems of human existence?
How do cultural anthropologists analyze religion and other forms of belief?
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