ANTHRO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: East Los Angeles College, Human Terrain System, Franz Boas
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Concerns about our intentions towards others, institutions, governments . The practice in which an anthropologist is immersed in the daily life of a culture to collect data. Ethnographic fieldwork: purposely provides both description and explanation. Early 20th century franz boas and bornislaw malinowski proponents of fieldwork. It is what differences the field of anthropology from sociology, psychology, etc. The purpose is to allow the researcher to gain insight and develop relationships that require an active, trusting rapport with participants. You look at appearance, verbal behavior and interactions, physical behavior and gestures, personal space, human traffic and people who stand out. Allows for insight into contexts, relationships, behavior. Can help an anthropologist distinguish between what people say they do and what people actually do. Data can be hard to code or categorize. Obtrusive effect: the presence of the researcher causes people to behave differently than they would if the researcher was not present.
