ANT 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Trobriand Islands, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography
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He was one of the first to perform fieldwork using participant observation. I also used his example of the boy committing suicide in the trobriand islands to illustrate the important distinction between ideal, believed, and actual behavior. Chagnon studied their culture but they disliked him because he was perceived as weak. An ethnographic method to go out and look at how a culture is living without participating. Formal and structural and they will ask these specific questions with the same variables. Informal will be more open-ended questions and not in the same setting. In sterk"s interviews, the girls did not want to answer the questions. Answering questions in a way that the person thinks they want to hear, not the actual answer. Where the anthropologist goes into the field and participates in the same culture that they are studying. Ideal behavior how you ideally want to act or behave. Believed behavior the way we think we are acting or behaving.
