ANTH 2160 Lecture : January 23rd 2012.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2160
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Anthropologists in a relationship with human beings (taking influence for talcott parsons" model) Language informants" is rarely used as a term now. It disguises the relationship posing it as unidirectional where people are just informing a researcher of an answer to a specific question as opposed to bidirectional learning that actually occurs. Collaborators" he" none of these capture the relationship that goes on no one has to talk to anthropologists at all, they don"t have to tell the truth, they may have their own agenda. Voluntary participation people must know what the project is about (informed consent) and you cannot bribe or lure participation. Additionally, there cannot be any fear of harm for choosing not to participate. Questions about informed consent- if research changes, consent must be re-addressed. Principal informant" someone like an elder or a leadersomeone who has a lot of knowledge would be a principal informant but they should get co-authorship.