"Master Ethnographic Texts and 'Classics' in the Anthropology of Europe" II (slides)

-- following Susan Parman, Europe in the Anthropological Imagination, pp. 11 - 14

(slides)

An "Emic" analysis of a Greek family in Cyprus ...

nlt 3:28 video:
Life Chances:
Four Families in a Changing Cypriot Village
(43 min., 1973,  VC 3286)

(viewing guide)

• Major Characteristics of Anthropology (slides 03A)
  
  
  • one of which is . . .
    
    
    • comparative methods: as major approaches to the study of human behavior development and structure
      
      
• REM: Comparison / Contrast
  from the suggested writing/development strategies and the discussion of
  Kypseli: Women and Men apart -- a Divided Reality of Week 01 Day 02
  
  
  • Note how things are the same and how they are different.
    
    In the Kypseli case, a logical intravillage comparison / contrast would be with / between "The Divided Reality" of the women's world and the men's world.
    
    

	Women			Men
Item # 1	similar	different		similar	different
Item # 2	similar	different		similar	different
Item # 3	similar	different		similar	different
Item # 4	similar	different		similar	different
Item # N	similar	different		similar	different




• Compare / Contrast
  
  
  • Kypseli
  • Vasilika
  • Life Chances
  • Discussions of Greek Villages and Greek Ethnology/Ethnography in Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
    
    
    • How are they Greek?
      
      
    • How are they villages?
      
      
    • How are they "island communities"?
      
      
    • How are they "peasant communities"?
      
      
    • How are they part of
      larger social/cultural systems?
      
      
    • How are they representative of
      larger social/cultural systems?
      
      
    • How are all three of these "Master Texts" relevant to today's Anthropology of Europe?
      
      

(viewing guide for Life Chances)