chapter 5 Flashcards
Ethnographic fieldwork
anthropologist is emerged in culture to collect data
participatory action research
anthropologist works with the locals in research analysis
community based participatory research
collabs with community to solve a problem in society and achieve social change
6 preparing for fieldwork
funding, health precautions, permission to enter and research in that country, learning the native tongue, knowledge of the culture you are entering, making arrangements to leave your life behind
stages of research
- selecting a research problem
- formulating a research design (how are you going to collect data)
- collecting data
- analyzing data
- interpretation the data
- writing and publishing
advantages of participatory observation
- better relationships with respondents, therefore more in depth convos
- seeing the difference between what people say and what people do
- more accurate picture of what’s going on
- avoids biases of self-reporting data
- provides real time data
disadvantages of participatory observation
- the more time-consuming and in depth, the few people can be observed
- synthesizing, coding and comparing the data is harder
- efficiency of recording on site
- hawthrone effect- altering of subjects behaviour because they know they are being observed.
3 types of interviews
unstructured interview, semi structured, structured
reflexive ethnography
focus on a influence of the ethnographer, like their cultural context and personal bias , on the ethnography also focus on collaboration between the ethnographer and the cultural expert
autoethnography
anthropologist will learn about the culture by focusing on the their own experiences being emersed in this culture
life histories
collaborators life story/experience being in that culture
multi-sited fieldwork
studying is conducted in more than one location, they look not only at local community, but migrants, media, etc
new information technology
using social media and internet to collect data
3 ethics of field work
- respect for persons studied
- concern for welfare- can’t jeopardize people’s mental and physical health
- justice- treat people fairly, no discrimination
AAA ETHICS
- responsibility to people studied
- responsibility to group and community
- responsibility to colleagues
- responsibility to sponsors
- responsibility to your own/host government
Alice Goffman
hiding evidence from her research on AA men, and is criticized for representing a marginalized group as a privileged person
culture shock
sense of disorientation at being placed in a new culture,
3 impetuses of fieldwork
increasing knowledge of other cultures
incomplete data
tribes are going into extinction because of contact with other nations
important anthropologists in evolutionism
rivers, Balfour, Haddon
Haddon view of evolutionism
figuring out the evolutionary tree and where we all fit
Balfour view of evolutionism
it’s about determining our place in time (the present)
rivers
goal is to reconstruct the history of primitive people
2 traits that ere lacking in fieldwork
participation and sociological theory
Central Igluik Study
the sea-mammal hunters recognized various shades and characteristics of sea water, that Europeans did not acknowledge
Margaret Mead anthropology
holistic, relativist, humans select their own culture
Ruth Benedict
cultures dertermine personality, deterministic
cultural ecology person
Julian Haynes Steward
Balinese Cock fights
cultural symbol of masculinity and class struggles
Edward Said
Post-modern views of anthropology; orientalism
Colin Turnbull’s ethnography: the mountain people
an example of how anthropologists can’t understand the full picture, pro post-modernism view
content analysis
analysis of text to find patterns and themes from which educated inferences are made
behaviour trace theory
looking at people’s behaviour through different aspects of their lives like the trash they dump out
