ANTH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2, page 26-49: Scientific Method, Ethnography

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 100
• Professor: R.Robin Dods

Document Summary

Fieldwork: a meeting of cultural traditions (key terms) 1fieldwork: extended period of closely working with people whose way of life is being studied, allowing anthropologists to gather information. 2structured interviews: a method for collecting data by asking a set of prepared questions and recording the response of the participant(s) 3participant-observation: a method that involves living/ working with the people whose culture is being studied while participating in their as much as possible. 4positivism: the traditional philosophy of the physical sciences; a view that there is a single reality out there that is distinguished by the senses and only a single, appropriate scientific method to investigate said reality exists. 5reflexivity: being able to critically think about the way one thinks; be able to reflect over one"s experience. 6objective knowledge: knowledge about relativity which is absolute and true for everyone, in all times and places.