ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Semi-Structured Interview, Unstructured Interview, Preppy

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Today: denise brennan, what"s love got to do with it? . Ethnography-written description and analysis of an anthropologist"s long term fieldwork and interactions with a particular group of people. Participant observation, unstructured or semi- structured interviews, and other qualitative methods. Long term fieldwork: live with a group of people, interact intensely. Emic perspective: try to understand how people perceive their world, what their experiences mean to them. Unstructured interview -meet up with someone, informal convo, no questions prepared. Experiencing and exploring people"s perceptions of their world and events. It is not about finding truth in a deductive way. Many women have contradictory feelings about being a sex worker for example. Reflexive- when an anthropologist is aware of his or her positionality and how it reflects the process and outcome of research. Example: don cherry rather be interviewed by a blonde preppy girl than a girl with green hair and piercings.

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