Dettwyler And Anderson Ethnographic Comparison
“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.”
-Margaret Mead (Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935))
The words of Margaret Mead are echoed throughout the ethnographies First Fieldwork: The Misadventures of an Anthropologist by Barbara Anderson and Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa by Katherine Dettwyler. These two anthropologists have created engaging ethnographies that allow the reader to have a much better understanding of anthropology. The differences and similarities between these women are exemplified in many aspects of their research including their methods, experience levels, language abilities, reactions to art and ethical decisions.
Differences can be found between these two women from the very start, by examining what type of anthropologist, and research that each conducts. Dettwyler, being a physical/biological......
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