a. This first person narrative goes off of the personal account of Gregg Simon, an anthropologist working in OING fieldwork in the country of Indonesia in a city called Bukittinggi. He starts off talking about how he was treated; the people around him seemed to look at him like he was an animal in the zoo. They would always point and laugh. He even tried using the local language and he always knew the people here would make fun of him for not being as fluent as them, which is exactly what some Americans do to foreigners. He also talks about how irritable he became towards the people of the city even the nice ones, which only wanted to talk and greet him. He states that during his time there he hardened his heart, mind and body every day because he had started to believe that the people here were cold and unaccepting of him. He finally starts to see the good of the people around him and starts to let
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Anthropologist design a bunch of open-ended questions to draw out information from the subjects they interview. They also participate in cultural activities Most of the anthropologists take extensive field notes. Even though the interview might not have lasted long, but it takes maybe days for them to transcribe all the information down in their spreadsheets.
E. Engaged and Collaborative Ethnography
a. Collaborative Ethnography is doing research with another group of people and not by a single person. This way it’s not just one person writing about how they saw the people around him it’s a group with individual thoughts and different perspectives, and by doing this they can all agree what should go in.
F. Ethical Consideration in Fieldwork
a. Anthropologists have obligations to their sponsors and governments and to the public to respect the integrity and traditions of the people and the culture around them. If one anthropologist violate the traditions of the culture it is highly unlikely that those people will let other anthropologists into their
Anthropologist design a bunch of open-ended questions to draw out information from the subjects they interview. They also participate in cultural activities Most of the anthropologists take extensive field notes. Even though the interview might not have lasted long, but it takes maybe days for them to transcribe all the information down in their spreadsheets.
E. Engaged and Collaborative Ethnography
a. Collaborative Ethnography is doing research with another group of people and not by a single person. This way it’s not just one person writing about how they saw the people around him it’s a group with individual thoughts and different perspectives, and by doing this they can all agree what should go in.
F. Ethical Consideration in Fieldwork
a. Anthropologists have obligations to their sponsors and governments and to the public to respect the integrity and traditions of the people and the culture around them. If one anthropologist violate the traditions of the culture it is highly unlikely that those people will let other anthropologists into their