Key Methods in Cultural Anthropology Quiz Choose one of the ‘illness narratives’ in Seth Holmes Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies and describe how that man’s illness came about through structural violence and how his medical experiences exposed him to symbolic violence.
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Seth Holmes explains why participant observation in ethnography is so important and why no other form of research can give the same kind of information about other people’s lives. He goes on to say that his research, in particular, needed his bodily experience for information, he calls it embodied ethnography.
Explain what participant observation and ethnographic research are and why they are key methods in cultural anthropology.
Describe what he learns through bodily experience. Use THREE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES from the text.
