AN202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eric Wolf
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Effects on informants: disruption of understanding self and the world o economic gain or loss, change in status. The positivist approach in anthropology o the field is your living laboratory. Record objective facts o ethics and politics. Recognize the relationship that is formed between the informants. Acknowledge that anthropologists do have ethical obligations to other humans (ex. if someone is dying, they help rather than observing) o result: anthropological fieldwork. Cannot be completely value free and anthropologists bias comes in communicating with people is a dialogue. Reflexive: thinking about thinking , critical, aware. While on the field, it is not possible to talk to every person or see everything avoids generalizations. Communitiesareimpacted,theyrecognizeanthropologistsasfriends: detailed, accurate data collection and consideration of a larger context of the reason. Full partnership of informants the way data is gathered. Writing down everything you see, observing anthropology, watching rather than participating: multi-sited. How do you do fieldwork on cultural processes that are not constrained by boundaries.
