ANTH 1000 Lecture 3: Ethnographic methods and techniques
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Ethnography - based on fieldwork and provides an account of a particular community, society, or culture. Ethnology - based on cross cultural comparison and examines, compares, analyzes, and interprets the results of ethnography. Immerse yourself in the social world you"re studying. Cut yourself off from your own kind of people. Find patterns, structures, anatomy of social life. Fill in details of everyday life, the imponderabilia through observation. Collect a corpus inscriptionum -- a set of telling examples. Do all of this in order to grasp the native"s point of view, his relation to life, and to realize his vision of his world. Based around firsthand, personal study of particular cultural settings. Developing intimate relationships with people who are unlike you. Participant obersvation, rapport, and key cultural consultants. Different models: problem oriented, longitudinal, team research, multi-sited ethnography.