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This paper is about Ethnography, which is the study of diverse culturs that could be threatened by wedstern civilization.
Title: This paper is about Ethnography, which is the study of diverse culturs that could be threatened by wedstern civilization.
Category: History
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This paper is about Ethnography, which is the study of diverse culturs that could be threatened by wedstern civilization.
Ethnography
Ethnography is the firsthand, personal study of local settings. Bronislow Malinowski, a Polish anthropologist, is credited as being the "father of ethnography". Malinowski believed it was an ethnographer's job to research and study small groups of foragers, cultivators, and generally any type of culturally diverse communities that could be threatened by western civilization.
Early ethnographers, including Malinowski, would live in small-scale, relatively isolated societies, with very limited technologies and economics. This would be known …showed first 75 words of 661 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 661 total…that cultures have been in contact, and have been constantly changing throughout history. In some way, shape, or form, certain cultures have been in contact with some type or foreigner way before any anthropologist ever came their way. Most have already been "shown" or involved with some fashion to nation-states, or colonial system. It is even thought that natives were already in some way a part of the "world system", maybe through traders, or missionaries.
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