What does field work involve in cultural anthropological research?
- research planning
- collecting data
- analyzing data
- presenting research findings
Where do anthropologists study cultures
Not at home, in the field to study culture
What research methods are there in anthropology
- armchair
- verandah (lived close but not with)
- participant observation
- multi-sites research
- collaborative research
- participatory research
What flows are cultures and people connected too?
- Colonialism
- emergence of capitalism
- industrial revolution
- globalization
- transnational migration
What are the steps of the feild work process
- Project selection
- funding
- ethic protocol
- journey
- Site selection
- rapport building
What are some issues in cultural field work?
- class
- race
- gender
- Age
- positivism
- reflexive anthropology
What is cultural shock? Reverse cultural shock?
Feeling of being lost, uncomfortable, frustrated etc in unknown cultural settings. Reverse is when you come home accustom to another culture and feel shock
What is deductive research
Meathod that involves posting research questions or hypothesis, then collecting relevant data through observation and other meathods
What is inductive research method?
Avoids hypothesis formation in advance of the research and instead takes its leads from the culture being studied
What are the 2 ethnographic approaches to recording culture
Realist- uses third person voice, uses a more scientific approach
Reflexive- explores the research experience itself, highly personalized
What is qualitative and quantitative data?
-qualitative- includes descriptive field notes, informants, narratives, myths and stories and songs
- quantitative - includes numerical info, counting and the use of tables and charts
- helps identifying demographic structures
What’s are emic and etic approaches in anthropology
Emic approach- studying cultures from an insiders point of view
Etic approach- studying from outsiders point of view
What are the 8 central principles for anthropological research
- respect : -human dignity
- free and informed consent
- vulnerable persons
- privacy and confidentiality (anonymity)
- justice and inclusiveness
- balancing harms and benefits
- minimizing harm
- maximizing belnifit
What are some dangers in the field
- physical and physiological risks
- violence
- hunger and poverty
- diseases
- mental stress and shocks
- accident
What are some modes of ethnographic feild work
- positive approach
- reflexive approach
- multi sites feild work
What is the positivist approach?
- Similar to physical sciences
- Can be investigated and detected by scientific approach
- deprecation of values from facts
What is the reflexive approach
- research contexts shape data
- more power sharing process
What is collaborative research?
- Eric Lassiter is a pioneer in collaborative research method
- sharing power
- research populations are partners not subjects
- active participants are ensured
What is multi-sited fieldwork
Studies everything - no boundaries
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Unit One16
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Chapter 2 Feild Work19
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Chapter 3 Ecinomic Anthropology26
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Chapter 4 Reproduction And Human Development25
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Chapter 5 Ethnomedicine26
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Chapter 6 Kinship And Domestic Life20
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Chapter 7 Social Groups24
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Chapter 8 Political Anthropology23
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Chapter 9 Linguistic Anthropology18
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Chapter 10 Religon22
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Chapter 11 Migration11
