ANTH 1002 Lecture 11: Lecture 11.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1002
• Professor: Paul Thibaudeau

Document Summary

Ethnos = people, graphein = write/picture, ethnography is writing about people. In anthropology, ethnography is the standard product for fieldwork fieldwork provides data for ethnographies. Doing ethnography ask and listen, alot of interviews, survey questions. Classic ethnography: wright mills (1959) no separation between method and theory, no separation between work and life. Traditional ethnography: the process of gathering cultural information and the product of that research. Anything you go out and do is ethnography is a misconception: you have to have good social skills to be a professional. Ethics in applied research: there are several parties to which the applied anthropologist should pay attention to . The client person, agency, or organization that has commissioned and is paying for the work. The discipline and profession of anthropology collaboration and collegiality. The general public popularization and engaging the wider audience: follow professional codes of ethics. Need to maintain confidentiality and privacy: academic versus practitioner anthropology 4 dangers (slides 10, 11)