ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tape Recorder, Ethnography, Reconsideration Of A Motion
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Daily logs, personal journals, descriptions of events and notes about those notes. Ideally notes written each day (field notes: tape recorder and laptop. Back log accumulates of daily scratch notes or rough jottings. Tape recorders major aid in fieldwork. Raise problems research participants suspicions about a machine: ethical issue of protecting identity of people. Problems with videos: recording rituals amount of forgotten, or missed material, but precludes taking notes simultaneously, team approach. Photographs : may supplement, complement or even contradict written accounts, arranged in groups to suggest comparison or juxtaposed in striking manner to illustrate change. Quantitative terms and reporting on quantitative results: local conditions accompany graphs, charts and computation. Descriptive field notes, informant"s narratives, myths and stories and songs and sagas. General procedure: search for themes, or regularities in data, exploring data or playing with data either by hand or with computer. Numeric data can proceed in several directions (sophisticated methods: computer or computer software.
