Discussion #4: Doing Fieldwork: Culture Shock and the Ethnographic Method
Anthropologists often encounter culture shock when they enter the field. They must overcome culture shock and/or ethnocentric tendencies to learn about the culture they are studying.
1.When have you felt culture shock? What was the setting? Were you able to overcome it? If so, how? If not, did you maintain ethnocentric views on the situation? How does that make you feel now?
2. After reading the articles on the Yanomamo and the Kalahari San people, explain how the anthropologists’ come to understand the cultural settings they are studying? What surprised you from each example?
3.Respond to a classmate’s post.
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