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Question 1 of 8

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The story of postmodernism.
Postmodernism developed in the 60s, when was over but fieldwork was very much associated with that. There was a bubbling idea that research could not be It had to bloom forth talks too.
It was with these strains of thinking that anthropologists began to study
The postmodernists challenged science's because he was wearing a primark t-shirt and also his because he always had his nose in a book and was looking up to fidget and question aloud what he was doing.
They said to him, how can you read that book about a foreign culture and describe and interpret it to us? What gives you the authority. Then they asked, isn't it a political activity when you go and study the clothes factory in Bangladesh? You are western and represnting the lives of non-westerners, how can it be? You are presenting them as mere like little test tubes you are peering into but no reaching into and getting dirty with.

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Question 2 of 8

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Challenged authority to ( describe, interpret and represent, challenge ) lives of others as if they couldn't speak for self.
Multiple voices are better than monological method previously used. But there should be more than the native's perspective, Noa from the Amazon should have an ( equal voice, more prevalent voice ) with the white-shirted anthropologist and fieldwork should be a joint venture where ( meaning and interpretation engage, ideas collide ) - Noa tells the anthorpologist the meaning of a certain dance she and her family do and interprets it along with the anthropologist.
Mr positivism arrived in the 60s of a plane with ( inadequete, too much ) clothing shivering in the cold and stealing other's clothing with ( immoral, lovely ) behaviour. Though he seemed an ( ordered and consistent, nice ) fella, postmodernism said they preffered ( autonomy and variation, colourful ), they decided he represented the ( dominant ideology instead, mass voices ) and powerful with big black boots kicking dust into the mouths of the ones he studies by not letting them speak.

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Question 3 of 8

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The postmodernists looked around them and suddenly lost sight of people and instead saw a myrad of they talked to Noa about it and . Hermen swaggered in and furrowed his brow at Noa, trying desperately to of the . He was struggling until Dezmond came along and , in this case, faimily. into component parts, showing all the like a schmourger's board.
Then Mr Boas rolled in wearing red and pink, a crown and a feather boa, he insisted that each culture was like his dress, and could only be (he was just at Brazilian carnival). 'You can't compare the brazilian customs to another culture' he said, and
The party ended in a heap by the fire, roasting mashmellows and lamenting on how all the world were crumbling. Even n indigenous explanation is just as good, as we can see from their knowledge of the amazon. The burned in the embers and spiralled into the air anew in fiercness that made the skin prickle and forms which dazzled.

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Question 4 of 8

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James Clifford:
'you do not really know what you think you know'
Ethnographies are
They are like , we must focus on
We should have dialogues and not be monological.
George Marcus and Michael Fischer:
There is a going on.
Social life, as previously shown is the
How do change representation of everything? How is
How do we interpret soft issues, (meanings, symbols) with hard ones (politics, economics, historical change)?
How can they think anthropologists document the among cultures when they say that authentic distinctive culture is an anachronism, .

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Question 5 of 8

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Web of meaning,
Anthropological writings are interpretations and ones too as 1st order ones would be a native's.
See interpretve anthropology as a science stilll.
We think we in ethnographies but we actually .
Ethnography is thick desciption - it has meaning condensed into it like a protein bar.
Understanding culture is like reading a book, a foreign culture = a book in another language.
'Cultural analysis' is - the it goes, the less it is.
This is all against
Geertz & Levi Strauss saw anthropology as a

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Question 6 of 8

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Interpretation can be itself, as when we are interpret we are always in society some way or another.
There are and n ethnographies.
Theory is a catalyst for that give an intermediate language good for interpretation but rubbish for scientific anthropology.
Geertz makes it hard for reader to interpret, he tries to be both of text. k

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Question 7 of 8

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Intro:
Post-modern ethnography likes and sinking its teeth into complexirt, it likes .
There is a of thought unfolding through
Says that the contemporary is not a place where we embrace the new and dismiss the old but where the
The goal is that we understand who we are to better understand .
'I was intruding beyond the which were
Culture is and facts are
What the anthropologist and interpretor make together is a , it is
Says of Ali that he began to his experiences: 'more time n this between cultures'. One could say it is and full of
However much one tries to participate they will always be an
'the facts seemed to
The field needed to reflect on its and Given its past, it needed to

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Question 8 of 8

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say they stole their ideas without crediting. They acknowledge too.
Say that pms are monological too as they are so . Think Hamlet.
Pms decide what is in the book so they are still
the refusal of textual mediation between the field encounter and the reader, is as much a barrier to as is . - Ethnography and Interpretive anthropolgy.
Its stance is essentially

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