Ch. 5 - Doing Anthropology/Fieldwork

Question 1

Type of research where local people are part of the research design and data-collection process

Answer 1

Participatory Action Research

Question 2

Type of research where partners from within a community are involved in all aspects

Answer 2

Community-Based Participatory Research aka C.B.P.R.

Question 3

The practice whereby an anthropologist is immersed in the daily life of a culture to collect data

Answer 3

Ethnographic Fieldwork

Question 4

What are the OCAP Principles?

Answer 4

Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession

Question 5

List the 6 stages of Field Research

Answer 5

1. Select a research problem
2. Formulate a research design
3. Collect the data
4. Analyze the data
5. Interpret the data
6. Write up and presentation of the results

Question 6

Research that involves living with and observing the people under study

Answer 6

Participant Observation

Question 7

What are the 3 types of interviews?

Answer 7

Structured, Semi-Structured, and Unstructured

Question 8

Information collected in the field that describes what a person thinks, believes, or feels

Answer 8

Attitudinal Data

Question 9

Info collected in fieldwork that describes what a person does

Answer 9

Behavioural Data

Question 10

This type of interview uses broad, open-ended questions

Answer 10

Unstructured

Question 11

This type of interview relies on an interview guide which covers the topics or themes that need to be addressed

Answer 11

Semi-Structured

Question 12

A type of interview where large numbers of respondents are asked a specific set of questions

Answer 12

Structured

Question 13

The use of historical documents, oral traditions, as well as other archaeological and ethnographic methods to understand the history of ethnic groups, both past and present

Answer 13

Ethnography

Question 14

A technique of collecting data in which the anthropologist writes down all the kin of a research collaborator

Answer 14

Genealogical Method

Question 15

The study of how people in different cultures use space

Answer 15

Proxemic Analysis

Question 16

An ethnography in which the ethnographer discusses the influence of his/her personal context on the ethnography, and which are co-produced and focus on the interaction between themselves and their collaborators

Answer 16

Reflexive Ethnography or Narrative Ethnography

Question 17

The person in the culture being researched who provides the ethnographer with information

Answer 17

Informant or Cultural Expert

Question 18

Anthropological knowledge that is influenced by the anthropologists age, religion, socio-economic status, ethnicity, education, and historical/cultural context

Answer 18

Situated Knowledge

Question 19

Shared meanings constructed through the interactions of people from different perspectives

Answer 19

Intersubjectivity

Question 20

An ethnographic method in which the ethnographer attempts to understand another culture through a description and analysis of their own fieldwork experience

Answer 20

Autoethnography

Question 21

An examination of the ethnographer’s emotions, thoughts, and behaviors during fieldwork, and how they impact data collection

Answer 21

Systematic Sociological Inspection

Question 22

The capacity to think and perceive in the categories of one’s own culture as well as in the categories of a second culture

Answer 22

Bicultural Perspective