ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Franz Boas
Document Summary
Technique for gathering verbal data through questions or guided conversation: more purposeful than casual conversation, various styles & formats. Open ended interview interviewee takes lead in setting direction of convo: interviewer doesn"t interrupt or provide prompting questions, researcher discovers themes are important to person. Formal research instrument containing pre-set series of questions. Face to face setting, mail or email. Vary degree of questions: structured close ended, unstructured open ended. Researcher enough familiarity with study population design questions make cultural sense. Questionnaires must be complimented with observational data on what people actually do. Qualitative, in depth description of an individual"s life as narrated to the researcher. Reveals info on individuals and how they think. Seek individuals who occupy particularly in social niches. Individual experiences and shared patterns are revealed. Includes written and oral stories, myths, plays, saying, speeches, jokes and transcriptions. Franz boas collected pages of text from aboriginal groups from bc.
