Module 3 Flashcards
fieldwork
An extended period of close involvement with the people in whose language or way of life an anthropologist is interested, during which anthropologists ordinarily collect most of their data.
**participant-observation
The method anthropologists use to gather information by living as closely as possible to the people whose culture they are studying while participating in their lives as much as possible.
**multisited fieldwork
Ethnographic research on cultural processes that are not contained by social, ethnic, religious, or national boundaries, in which the ethnographer follows the process from site to site, often doing fieldwork at sites and with persons who traditionally were never subjected to ethnographic analysis.
dialectic of fieldwork
The process of building a bridge of understanding between anthropologists and informants so that each can begin to understand the other.
**reflexivity
Critically thinking about the way one thinks, reflecting on ones own experience.
**culture shock
The feeling, akin to panic, that develops in people living in an unfamiliar society when they cannot understand what is happening around them.
fact
A widely accepted observation, a taken-for-granted item of common knowledge. Facts do not speak for themselves but only when they are interpreted and placed in a context of meaning that makes them intelligible.
SHIT MISSING
OKASY
the “other”?
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ethnography?
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