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ethnographyStudy of living cultures, using anthropological techniques like participant observation (where the anthropologist lives in the society being studied) and a reliance on informants. Ethnography has provided much data of use to archaeologists as analogies. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The book stands as a significant study of legal culture and reminds its primary audience of scholars and graduate students the importance of analyzing new sources instead of relying on nineteenth-century ethnographers. This first English translation of one of the defining imaginative works by ethnographer Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) sheds new light on the multiple currents that informed Io real maravilloso, or the "marvelous reality" literary tradition in Spanish American letters. McKennan presents the original field journals of expert Alaskan ethnographer Robert A. |
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