SOSC 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Longitudinal Study
16 Oct 2011
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The ethics of fieldwork: research on a university. Issues that may be faced by the anthropologist. Ethnocentricity, the tendency to perceive and evaluate the world in light of one"s own cultural experience, can be an issue in social anthropology. For a social anthropologist coming from a polygamous society, the idea of a monogamous family would be strange. If we are judgemental about the practices, that might keep us from understanding these practices. Longitudinal studies, studies over a lengthy period of time, pose unique problems. Going back to the same research site to see if people have transformed or not, or keeping up with the family of angel over the phone. Tzintzuntzan in the west of mexico: anthropologist george foster, studying village of, sent his graduate students there to study and, tzintzuntzaneans began coming to the states as established links with the village undocumented migrants.
