Antropologia

Anthropologists are people who analyze and compare different cultures, they examine how they grow, how they interact with one another, and their development. Typical anthropologists have similar fieldwork experiences. Most of the time, they have cultural shock when they arrive. Cultural shock is a disorientation a person has when he or she experiences an unfamiliar way of life due to a visit to another country. This happens to most of the anthropologists at the time of the arrival in the new country, but as time passes this cultural shock disappears because it become part of their daily lives. It is essential for an anthropologist to build rapport in order to have a better communication with the people. Building rapport with people means building trust and confidence with others. When an anthropologist arrives to his or her fieldwork, they may feel out of place, as well as the people in the new place may see them as a stranger. In order to eliminate this feeling, building rapport is crucial in an anthropological work. They may also encounter with several problems and should look for solutions. The problems may be from personal problems to problems with the people or even with the place. Most anthropologists are able to find solutions to these problems and continue with their investigation. Utilizing the correct methods to gain all the information is one of the most important factors an anthropologist must take into account when doing the research. These methods are essential in order to gain the information correctly, as well as for building rapport and solving problems. The anthropologist, Evans-Pritchard, is an anthropologist who studied the Nuer People in Africa. He has been researching this culture since 1940 until present day. Evans-Pritchard as well as, Claire E. Sterk, are typical anthropologists who had the same experience gathering data in the field. In the 1980s and 1990s, Clair E. Sterk studied the prostitutes in the United States. She focused in the states of New York and Atlanta. Claire E. Sterk, as well as Evans-Pritchard, had to go through a long process in order to achieve their goals, even though both experiences were very different because of the cultures.

The cultures these anthropologists worked with are both very different from each other. First, the places in which they work are totally different. Evans-Pritchard worked in Arica, while Sterk worked in New York and Atlanta. The people they had to interact with were also very different and this makes the cultures differ from one another. The Nuer are people who live in Africa and their lives are based on working out in the fields. As Evans Pritchard said, they are experts at making the research more difficult because they wouldn’t answer even the simplest questions. They are friendly people when they build trust, but at first it is a difficult culture to interact with. They are a determined culture, as well as a tiring one because once they built trust they wouldn’t live Pritchard alone. Pritchard’s main goal was to gain access to these people in order to learn from them and from their culture. He wanted to build a relation with them and to feel confident around one another to make the fieldwork easier. On the other side, life of the prostitutes is very different. They work for their pimps, who treat them as if they are worth nothing. Most of these women engaged in the prostitution to get access to drugs, while others do it because they have economic problems. Claire E. Sterk describes how these women gained control of their lives. As time passed, they were able to control their pimps, and to manipulate the costumers. Sterk’s primary goal was to approach these women’s lives so she could understand their point of view, and what made them enter the life of a prostitute. Her fieldwork experience mainly describes the prostitution world and the lives these prostitutes.

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