Understand what it means that anthropology is the holistic and comparative study of humanity.
Objectives: Know what distinguishes ethnography and ethnology.
Be able to identify and distinguish between the four subfields of anthropology.
Be able to identify and distinguish between the major ethnographic techniques and what kinds of information they collect. You should also be familiar with the history and development of ethnography and how anthropologists study cultures.
Know how ethnography and survey research differ in terms of methods, goals, and kinds of societies in which they are used.