Unit 1: Moduel 2 Fieldwork And Ethnographt

Question 1

Ethnography

Answer 1

A case study of a culture or microculture based on fieldwork using participant observation. Refers to both the process (research) and the product (write up)

Question 2

Fieldwork

Answer 2

Data for ethnography. A social science and art by collecting data, talking to people and writing up findings interestingly.

Question 3

Empiricism

Answer 3

Conducting studies through direct observation/neutral detailed desription

Question 4

Armchair Anthropology

Answer 4

Relied on others reports and observations. Lack fieldwork. E.B tylor

Question 5

Franz Boas 1858-1942

Answer 5

Holistic view, 4 fields, in person data collection, salvage ethnography (documenting disappearing cultures), cultural relativism (avoid biases), used historical particularism (culture develop based on unique histories).

Question 6

Participant Observation

Answer 6

Learning about culture by living in a given culture for an extended period of time. Bronislaw Malinowski: father of fieldwork
key elements: live with people, participate in daily lives, learn language (some things don’t translate), good listener

Question 7

Evans Pritchard

Answer 7

Studied Nuer in Sudan through structural functionalism focusing on their institutions. Focused on one moment of time did not compare to past.

Question 8

Holmes/Multi-sited fieldwork

Answer 8

Followed migrants one group of people who moved to different locations.

Question 9

Barbara Myerhoff

Answer 9

Anthropology from home. Wrote number our days talked to people in senior citizen community.