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salvage ethnography |
franz boas, rapidly collect cultural, material, linguistic, and biological information about U.S. native populations being devestated by westward expansion |
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cultural relativism |
franz boas - understanding a group's beliefs and practices within their own cultural context, without making judgements |
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participant observation |
malinowski - inovlves both participation in and observation of the daily life of the people being studied |
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zeros |
elements of a story or a picture that are not told or seen and yet offer key insights into issues that might be too sensitive to discuss or display publicly |
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mutual transformation |
the potential for both the anthropologist and the members of the community being studied to be transformed by the interactions of fieldwork |
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emic |
involving an approach to gathering data that investigates how local people think and how they understand the world |
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etic |
involving description of local behavior and beliefs from the anthropologist's perspective in ways that can be compared across cultures |
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ethnology |
the analysis and comparison of ethnographic data across cultures |
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polyvocality |
the practice of using many different voices in ethnographic writing and research question development, allowing the reader to hear more directly from the people in the study |
