ANT102H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Quantitative Research, Institutional Review Board, Qualitative Property
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Fieldwork: research in the field, which is any place where people and culture are found. Armchair anthropology: early cultural anthropologists conducted research by sitting at home in their library and reading reports about other cultures written by travelers, missionaries, and explorers. These early thinkers never visited the places they wrote about and had no direct experience with the people whose customs they discussed. Verandah anthropology: the anthropologist would send out for natives to come to his verandah. They lived near, but not with, the culture and people they were studying. Participant observation: basic fieldwork method in cultural anthropology that involves living in a culture for a long time while gathering data. Learning about culture by living in a culture for an extended period. father of participant observation: bronislaw malinowski - also coined "holism" In the mid-twentieth century, anthropologists began to take an interest in learning and recording as much as possible about a culture because they were disappearing so quickly.
