Cultures

Cultures Cultures have been studied and written about for over a century. There are many types of cultures and a technique called ethnography enables us to step into any culture we decide to study. It describes a culture from the natives’ point of view. Anthropology is based on the findings of ethnography fieldwork. It has brought back many important findings. According to Malinowski, ethnography is meant “to grasp the natives point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world”. We, the fieldworker, have to get inside the culture and interact. Through the fieldwork we learn from people. These people are the subjects of study and can also sometimes become informants. Informants are often friends the fieldworkers make during his study. They give the fieldworker useful knowledge in how the culture works and sometimes what needs to be done to survive. By interacting in their native ways it is easier to get inside their heads. Feeling what they do and being able to be accepted will ultimately give you the best views. Spradley believes this to be the goal of ethnography. In order to find culture, people, one, ethnography, knowledge, important, study, become, view, take, tacit, meanings, make, cultures, act, about, very, studying, step, sometimes, same, point, place, part, over, outside, order, must, makes, life, learn, know, interacting, interact, inside, informants, however, give, friends, find, fieldworker, fieldwork, explanation, explain, events, event, ethnographer, environment, done, certain