ANTH 1a Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ethnography, Participant Observation

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Opening sketch: economy, geography, social structure, norms. Account of the fieldwork situation: how she was introduced, her social role, limitations, background. Her father takes the anthropologist to her field site at the bedouin village. Also serves as an introduction to the bedouins in regards to her religion, background, and the pride her family has in her. Critical due to the importance of lineage and familial relations to the bedouin. Established the basic rules and condition for fieldwork. The solution he comes to: participant observation. Understand the meaning of rituals by joining in. Lacks mention of who he is and how he got there. Abu-lughod"s realization: who the researcher is matters. Intersection and importance of her gender, race, nationality, religion, and age. Her arrival story shows how gender, religion, and nationality opens and closes doors. Abu-lughod is seen as an adoptive daughter. Restrictions on movement that all young women face.

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