Week 4 Lecture 2

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Anthropology

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Oct 30, 2023

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Friday, September 30, 2022 Slideshow Professor Anthropology and its Legacy Cultural Evolutionism - Scientific Racism - "Salvage ethnography: - Current Issues Trust - Representation - How knowledge that is shared may be used - Repatriation of artefacts - Colonialism UNDRIP Creating Creating a brighter future for present, and future generations ○ UNDRIP - Continuing Continuing our journey of justice, peace and reconciliation ○ - Continuing Continuing our work to break down barriers and combat racism and ○ discrimination Indigenous people face - Affirming and supporting Affirming and supporting the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples, including the rights to self-determination and self-government ○ - Protecting Protecting Indigenous governance and laws, Indigenous lands and territories, cultures and languages, promoting economic participation, and creating social and economic equality ○ - "Representation" Control by one power over a dependent area or people - Occurs when one nation subjugates another, conquering its population and exploiting it, often while forcing its own language and cultural values upon its people - W4 Lecture 2: Doing Fieldwork: Anthropological Research Saturday, October 15, 2022 1:37 AM

Troubling patterns of representation of Indigenous Peoples in Canada - Stereotyping - Decontextualizing from history - 'Pan-indigeneity" - Binary presentations - "us" vs "them" - Decolonization Everyone's responsibility - Research: Quantitative Experiments - Surveys - Systematic observation (i.e. counting the number of times a group of people does something) - Secondary research Reviewing documents, or archival data ○ - Used For: Descriptive research Overall summary of the different variables you saw a. 1. Correlation Relationships between different a. 2. Experimental Testing whether variables and the outcome of them a. 3. Goal- Quantitative The goal of quantitative research is to seek explanations or causations - Qualitative Research Includes: Qualitative Research - In-depth interview - Focus groups - Ethnographic research - Participatory action research - Case study research - Goals - Qualitative Seeks to build an understanding of phenomena - Often focused on meaning (i.e. how do - people make sense of their lives, experiences, and their understanding of the world?) May be descriptive - Rethinking our political commitments - Cultural, psychological, and economic freedom for Indigenous people - Participatory action research is when someone actually works with the community to conduct research -

Representation of Anthropology Archive materials Recordings ○ Field notes ○ - Ethnography Videos ○ Writings ○ Documents ○ - Exhibition materials Presentations ○ Setups at museums ○ - Anthropologist as "translator" Acting as the middle man of whatever community that they are experiencing ○ - Anthropology 1970s and 1980s Anthropologists should concern themselves with impacts of its representations on the lives of people studies - 1990s Many anthropologists chose to represent others by speaking for them by trying to make local voices heard in international arenas - Critical Anthropology Examines the inherently problematic nature of representations and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole - Hey guys! I'm so so sorry I've been uploading the notes late. In my personal notes, I combine the slideshow and what the professor says but I retype everything into two columns so that you guys can differentiate what is on the slide and what professor Linton says. I hope this is helpful.

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