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19 Cards in this Set
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fieldwork (ethnographic fieldwork)
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working with a culture, participating and observing/ collecting data about a culture first hand.
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Ethnography
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Fieldwork in a culture
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fieldwork techniques
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observation/ participant observation
interviewing (structured vs. unstructured) genealogical method (ancestry) life histories questionnaires survey and census document analysis focus group informant/consultant rapport (feeling the same and communicating) field notes (summarizations or beliefs about something afterwards) |
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quantitative data
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quanitity
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qualitative
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interviews, personal, subjective.
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primary source (firsthand) data
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data from someone who experienced it
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secondary source data
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data from someone who heard about it
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longitudinal research
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repeated visits toward a studied site
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informed consent
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agreement to involvement
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intellectual property rights
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treating knowledge of things within a culture as something that culture owns.
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ethnographic present
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writing about a culture that is alive today and threatened by westernization, belief that cultures are unchanging (false)
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objectivity vs. subjectivity:
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true to everything, true to only some
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historicism
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traditions have a place in finding what is true, it can still be true even if not repeatable.
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empiricism
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attempting to make something repeatable, it is only true if it’s repeatable
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salvage ethnography
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to study a culture that is felt to be threatened by westernization
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functionalism:
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that a culture functions as a well oiled machine everything has a purpose and meaning
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interpretive anthropology
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that which is meaningful to the natives (symbols)
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reflexive ethnography
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personal feelings about the culture and his experience there
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dialogic approach
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looking at how anthropologists interact with the group, focusing on the cultural differences.
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