AN101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Personal Boundaries, Emic And Etic, Hermeneutics
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An extended period of close involvement with the people studied. Journey of discovery- ethnographic serendipity (unexpected, exciting discoveries. Discovery about self and others through reflexive interchanges: ethnography: empirical and descriptive results of fieldwork (malinowski, 1966:9) From immature student to professional anthropologist (ph. d. : marked by separation, transition, reincorporation as professional anthropologist, learn from informants or subjects of study are: teachers, key informants, gatekeepers, informants transform from subjects to collaborators. Looking from the insiders point of view emic (phonemic) Suspend judgments and pre0cinvieved notions about people being researched. Involves translating data into anthropological terms/ language etic (phonetic) A reality out there to be detected through the senses; a single method for investigating it. Reflexivity: thinking about the way we think or why we think . Effects on researcher on outcomes of research. Knowledge is not separate from the knower (researcher) Deparochialization of research ethic- equal partnership of western and non- western anthropologists, including knowledge produced by both.
