Ethnography

“All Our Kin” is an ethnography written by Carol Stack discussing her experiences in The Flats, which allowed her to develop three theoretical perspectives to help her organize data based of that particular location. These perspectives are: how people are recruited to kin networks, the relationships between household composition and residence patterns, and the relation between reciprocity and poverty. Within these eight chapters, Stack compares and contrast cultural stereotypes amongst black…

Malnutrition is the insufficient, excessive, or imbalanced consumption of nutrients—it means literally “bad nutrition”. This was the concern of anthropologist Katherine A. Dettwyler in her book Dancing Skeletons. An ethnography set in Mali, a West African country, the book is Dettwyler’s account as she attempts to measure and document the effects of malnutrition on Malian children. Her ultimate goal is to develop “culturally appropriate nutrition education programs” (Dettwyler 1994, 7). This is…

As a film that roots in the realities of Chinese peasants’ life and recent Chinese history, Huang Tu Di (1984) is a film that revolves around a young soldier from the Eighth Route Army’s propaganda department called GuQing who went to the destitute Shaanxi village to collect folk tunes for adaptation by the Party for propaganda and polemical use. As he lives with his assigned family in the village, Gu learns about the hardships of being a peasant and in particular, the dilemma of a peasant young…

been argued by researchers that policymakers and academics need to be more careful in their assumptions about how easily officers can act as effective and politically independent organizers of diverse community interest (Barry Goetz, 2003). The ethnography of urban policing is an attempt to fill a cognitive gap. Neighborhood social groups and integration can help provide more of a supportive…

HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN TAIGA Lastly, I also looked at Happy People: A Year in Taiga because this is a film by Herzog and Russian director Dmitry Vasyukov with a specifically ethnographic subject. Herzog and editor Joe Bini pull material from Vasyukov’s television documentary (Rapold) that brings the lives of a particular people group, the trappers and families of the Siberian taiga to a western audience by following their daily lives throughout the year, showing how they interact with their…

Discussion In the previous section, the researcher identifies the four stages of the usual communication repeatedly occurring in a chronological order among group members of the Catholic Student Beta organization. Now, in this section, the researcher further explains the meaning and why it is important for the group members to consistently communicate and exchange group identity. In this regard, the researcher organizes the contents of this section according to the same structure of the previous…

creating this ethnography to ensure anonymity. The computer in which I recorded with will also have a password-protected lock in which only I can gain access. Furthermore, each documentations will have an individual password on it. The essay will be kept with the instructor for 2 years. Transcripts and raw audio files are destroyed at the end of the course on December 20th, 2016. As a gamer myself, I was able to understand and expand my insights on various issues giving this ethnography a…

Foundations of Anthropology Semester 2 2014 Major Essay Student ID: a1668201 Word Count: What role does nature or biology play in human behaviour? Male Homosexuality One of the earliest debates in psychology, nature versus nurture has been applied to almost every subject of human behaviour, and homosexuality is of course no exception. Whilst attitudes towards homosexuality have certainly shifted over time, there is still no firm scientific or academic consensus on what causes homosexuality in…

Cultural Anthropology and archaeology are two fields of study that have plenty in common with each other along with uncommon with each other. Both archeology and cultural anthropology focus on studying culture, the difference is these fields study them in different ways (Waweru). Cultural anthropology is a term that is in everyday lives and topics. When thinking of anthropology one may think of the study of extinct human cultures or the study of past human cultures commonly referred to as…

At the age of 24 in 1925, Margaret Mead traveled to Samoa to conduct ethnographic research on the Samoan culture with a focus on female adolescent’s. Her findings were then compiled into her book Coming of Age in Samoa, published in 1928. She portrayed growing up in Samoa as uncomplicated and offering “…no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities” (Mead 109). This can be attributed to their societal structure as is…