seminar 1: what is anthropology?

what does thinking anthropologically consist of?

• not just a description of cultures

• to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar

• to question assumptions

• to pursue the value of turning things upside down

• to pursue a form of knowledge that is dialogic

• to transform ethnography into a means of mutual understanding

how to analyse ethnographic texts

• who is speaking?

• what does the author say?

• what do they describe?

• what do they argue?