Ethnographic Semantics: A Preliminary Survey [and Comments and Replies]

Colby, Benjamin N.; Akhmanova, O. S.; Albert, Ethel M.; Banks, E. Pendleton; Chafe, Wallace; Conklin, Harold C.; Fischer, J. L.; Grootaers, Willem A.; Hymes, Dell; Kay, Paul; Keesing, Roger M.; Kennard, Edward A.; Knobloch, J.; Lounsbury, Floyd G.; Sweet, Louise E.; Trager, George L.; Utley, Francis Lee; Wescott, Roger W.

doi:10.1086/200660

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“…Ethnoscience is primarily a field research methodology deve!oped in the early 1950s by a small group of American anthropologists influenced by developments in structural linguistics (Goodenough, 1957;Colby, 1966;Tyler, 1969). It is part of a self-conscious effort to formalize anthropological field techniques in an effort to gain greater precision and uniformity in ethnographic reporting while authentically attempting to grasp the native's point of view.…”

Section: Ethnoscience and The Problem Of An Authentic Field Research mentioning

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Ethnoscience and Problems of Method in the Social Scientific Study of Religion

Ryan

1978

Sociological Analysis

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This paper argues that recent methodological developments in anthropology-variousl'~, referred to as ethnoscience and/or cognitive anthropology-can be of enormous practical benefit in the close description of religiou,f symbolization. A rough sketch of ethnoscientific methods is drawn and some of the more general assumptions about co ffnitive processes which inform the theoretical perspective underpinning ethnoscience ate outlined. Briel" attention is given to the larger pa~sibilities of methodolo~cal re-orientation and the development of a hermeneutical sociolog), of religion wherein reli~ious systems are approached through la, nguage data.

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Section: Ethnoscience and The Problem Of An Authentic Field Research mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For general overviews see:Hallowell (1955);Tyler (1969);Goodenough (1957Goodenough ( , 1971;Colby (1966);Saliba (1974);Wallace (1970); introductory texts based on this approach areBock (1969) andSprad- ley and McCurdy (1975).at UQ Library on June 13, 2015 http://socrel.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from…”

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Ethnoscience and Problems of Method in the Social Scientific Study of Religion

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1978

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“…On the one hand, the recent work in semantics tends to reject the thesis defended by logical positivism according to which the meaning of a word would come from the particular and privileged relations it has with the referent it denotes (Lyons, 1963, p. 54;Colby, 1966). Modern semantics, on the contrary, following the development of structural phonology, finds the meaning of a word in the position that it occupies in a system of oppositions with other words belonging to the same domain.…”

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“…The extensive quantity of written matter on this subject has rather obscured the nature of the problems raised by Whorf (consult the lucid article of Fishman, 1960, on this point). It is only recently, with the theories of Chomsky and th,e development of ethno-semantics (Colby, 1966), that we can have an idea of how and in what language can influence the cognitive process.…”

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“…Indeed, it is the recognition of this fact which has recently led anthropologists (cf. Colby, 1966) to be particularly inventive in interviewing and content-analysis techniques, a privilege which, in better days, was held by social psychologists. The reasons which have hindered our creativity in this area have also kept us from being aware of what is happening on our boundaries.…”

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