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Unit 3- Assignment 3.1-Cultural Anthropology

Unit 3- Assignment 3.1-Cultural Anthropology

Q Q. Look at all of the pictures in Chapter 3 of the text that show anthropologists in the field. After reading the chapter, describe at least three of these photos as you speculate on what it would be like to do a year of fieldwork in a culture very different from your own. What do you think would be the major challenges and the major rewards for you personally.

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After analyzing the pictures from Chapter 3, it was observed that conducting fieldwork is really a very tough job especially when the anthropologists have to live in similar living conditions as the people who belong to different cultures. In the textbook, Robert Dentan who was doing fieldwork with the Semai of Malaysia had reported that even though they were using a water filter and also some chlorine tablets, they were having typhoid and paratyphoid immunizations as well but still there were high chances of dysentery, infectious hepatitis, and typhoid.