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  3. Participant observation also reflects anthropology’s dual nature as both a scientific and a humanistic discipline. Through the

Participant observation also reflects anthropology’s dual nature as both a scientific and a humanistic discipline. Through the

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问题    Participant observation also reflects anthropology’s dual nature as both a scientific and a humanistic discipline.  Through the stress on participation and getting the insider’s view, anthropologists of necessity become personally involved with their subjects. They show a humanistic concern for the people they study, and through their attempts to understand and describe people’s behavior they help give outsiders a rich appreciation for other people and other ways. Nevertheless, with its stress on observation, anthropologists strive to fulfill the requirements of a scientific discipline. Anthropologists strive for objectivity and accuracy. They often actually count, for example, the number of times specific behavior patterns occur and under what circumstances they use this data for empirical studies that integrate their observations into general laws of human behavior.
   Understanding anthropology requires understanding its dual nature. Perhaps two inelegant but useful terms borrowed from linguistics will help. Emic refers to the array of categories (and their systematic relationships) through which the bearers of a particular culture perceive the world. Eric refers to the array of categories (and their systematic relationships) used by Western social scientists to explain the word. In other words, the emic view is the insider’s, the participant’s view, and the etic is the outsider’s, the scientific observer’s view. Pierre’s emic view of his death, for exam- pie, is that he died from the power of the sorcerer; the anthropologist’s "etic view" is that he died from physiological effects of fear, induced by his belief in the sorcerer. Both views are valid under the proper circumstances, but anthropology requires that they be clearly distinguished from each other because they derive from different methodologies, consist of different kinds of data, and lead to different types of knowledge. Together they facilitate a complete understanding of a culture. Anthroplogy’s uniqueness lies in the fact that it encompasses them both.
In this passage the author mainly attempts to ______.
选项 A、explain what anthropology is concerned with
B、compare two different schools of anthropology
C、show people how anthropologists do their studies
D、distinguish anthropology from other disciplines
答案D
解析 本文向人们介绍人类学如何进行研究。第1段指出了方法“stress on participation and getting the insider’s view; show a humanistic concern for the people they study”，表明了它与其他学科的不同。
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