AAAD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gender Equality, American Anthropologist, Iranian Revolution

• School: UNC
• Department: African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
• Course: AAAD 200
• Professor: L.Boyd

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Ask more open-ended questions during interviews, instead of yes/no questions. Have the subject reveal answers, rather than interviewer direct conversation the questions we ask in an interview are very important, we should speak in everyday language and ask about experiences, feelings, and thoughts. People make sense of life experiences by narrating them. Might have to reiterate and lead them again and again to narrate rather than give a general overview. Aaa code: ethical obligation to research subjects comes before the acquisition of new knowledge. You have an obligation to protect subjects from harm. Lughod describes language used around covered women in the war on terror. Raises questions about the way the war of terror is staged as a means to liberate the oppressed muslim women, and thus is used as a justification of western violence in afghanistan (and later iraq).