meanings of jargons in anthropology context
emic: Emic in the anthropology context investigates how people think and perceive and categorize the world inn their perspective. It also shows how they imagine things and explain them.It tends to come from within the culture.
etic: Etic in the anthropology context is an account description of behaviour just like Emic. however in Etic account of description is believed to be neutral and can be applied to other culture instead of just one.
agency: Is the capacity of a human to act and work individually, it also involves making free and ones willing choices.
structure: Structure in anthropology debates the term agency. However, structure is how human culture must be understood in terms of their relationship and how their decisions will and can affect others.
holism: Holism means that one cannot determine anything with just a component of it, therefore one needs to take the entire system and analyse it and then determine how the little components are an important part.
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