ANTH 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Participant Observation
6 Feb 2017
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Field work: an extended period of close involvement with the people in whose way of life anthropologists are interested, during which anthropologists ordinarily collect most of their data. Participant- observation: the method anthropologists use to gather information by living and working with the people whose culture they are studying while participating in their lives as much as possible. Structured interviews: a method for gathering information whereby an anthropologist, or another researcher, asks a set of predetermined questions and records participants responses; archival material, published literature. The positivist approach: the view that there is a reality out there that can be detected through the sense and that there is a single, appropriate scienti c method for investigating that reality; controlled comparison. Objective knowledge: knowledge about a reality that is absolute and true for all people in all times and place. Re exivity: critically thinking about the way one thinks: re ecting on ones own experience.
