EMIC: This term means that the way in which a group of people in a culture may view things around them . What is meaningful , appropriate and how they explain and imagine things. The best way to understand this is to take it in the terms of 'Shakespeare in the Bush' , how the people in the culture explained, imagines, related and gave meaning to what the writer told them.
ETIC: This means that it is a scientific based approach in which anthropologists keeps in mind how the people of the culture are interpreting the world around them and thinks that they too have their biases when understanding the world , hence the anthropologist looks at what is more important on the whole.
AGENCY: In anthropological terms agency means that an individual has their own will to make choices. Although the cultural facts around them govern their daily lives. They still determine and choose their decisions.
STRUCTURE: In a culture there is influence of what has been going on hence the choices and opportunities of the people are limited.
HOLISM: It is the idea that while studying a culture we must not look at the parts of it as individuals but should look at it from a broader aspect, relating it with each other. Taking everything as one whole and then viewing it.
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