Doing Anthropology

Posted on May 3rd, 2011 by martijn.
Categories: anthropology.

As Talal Asad has suggested anthropology is:

the comparison of embedded concepts (representations) between societies differently located in time and space [and] the forms of life that articulate them, the power they release or disable

(2003:17).

Anthropologists therefore have to analyze, reveal and understand people’s view of reality and how their practices are related to that. But what does that actually mean? What is it that anthropologists do? What is their research about?

In the next video, three members of MIT’s Anthropology Department, Stefan Helmreich, Erica James, and Heather Paxson, talk about their current work and the process of doing fieldwork.

H/T: Kerim at Savage Minds

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