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20 Cards in this Set
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Reflexive, or Narrative, Ethnography
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-An approach to fieldwork that focuses on the personal experiences and perspectives of the ethnograher, as well as the voices of the native members of a culture.
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Culture Shock
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-a label for the resultant feelings of homesickness, disorientation, helplessness, and frustration that occur after exposure to an unfamiliar culture.
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Life Shock
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-a sudden unexpected experience that causes one to faint, become hysterical, or vomit. More likely to occur when immersed in an unfamiliar setting
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Rapport
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-A harmonious relationship
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String Figures
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-a type of entertainment in which designs, or figures, are created by weaving string on the fingers. Patterns, tricks, and catches are performed and are often accompanied by stories.
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Participant Observer
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-the role of an anthropologist doing ethnographic fieldwork.
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Emic
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-an insider's view of a culture. This perspective in ethnography uses the categories and ideas that are relevant and meaningful to the culture under study.
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Etic
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-An outsider's view of a culture. This perspective in ethnography uses the categories of the anthropologist's culture to describe the culture under study.
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Participant Observation
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-The process of an anthropologist doing ethnographic fieldwork.
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Random Sample
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-A sample method in which all members of a population have a statistically equal chance of being chosen.
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Stratified Random Sample
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-a random sample with divisions into categories such as age or socioeconomic level.
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Judgment Sample
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-a sample that is chosen based on the judgment of the ethnographer.
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Informants
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-native members of a society who give information about their culture to an ethnographer.
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Key Informant
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-an ethnographic interview subject who has been selected by judgment sample; a knowledgeable native who plays a major role in teaching the ethnographer about the informant's culture.
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Formal Interviews
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-an ethnographic research method in which planned, scripted questions are asked of informants.
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Structured Interviews
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-p. 66
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Informal Interviews
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-an ethnographic research method using open-ended questions that allow informants to talk about what they deem important.
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Unstructured Interviews
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-See Informal Interviews (p. 66)
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Genealogical Method
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-The ethnographic method of recording information about kinship relationships using symbols and diagrams.
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Life History
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-The ethnographic method of gathering data based on extensive interviews with individuals about their memories of their culture from childhood through adulthood.
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