AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Participatory Action Research, James George Frazer, Participant Observation
Document Summary
Doing anthropology: fieldwork in unfamiliar" and familiar" places. Doing the study regardless of familiar or unfamiliar you start seeing new things. Sometimes the familiar can become unfamiliar and vice versa. Bronislow is known as the father of fieldwork. An extended period of close involvement with the people studied. Journey of discovery ethnographic serendipity (unexpected, exciting and discoveries) Discovery about self" and other through reflexive" interchanges (reflexive is thinking about thinking) Ethnography is the empirical and descriptive results of fieldwork (malinowski 1966:9) Marked by separation (from familiar place) transition (unfamiliar place), reincorporation (back home), member of the club. Learns from informants subjects of study are: teachers, key informants, gatekeepers. Going native immersion into the community (acting, dressing and doing as the natives of the area do) (when in rome do as the romans do) Looking from the insider"s point of view emic. Not armchair anthropology (james frazer the golden bough)
