BIOL 1201 Chapter : Chapter 10 First Half Class Fall 2013
Document Summary
Ethnographic fieldwork- a primary research strategy in cultural anthropology involving living with a community of people over an extended period to better understand their lives. (p74) Salvage ethnography- fieldwork strategy developed by franz boas to rapidly collect cultural, material, linguistic, and biological information about u. s. Native populations being devastated by western expansion. (p83) Participant observation- a key anthropological research strategy involving both participation in and observation of the daily life of the people being studied. (p84) Reflexivity- a critical self-examination of the role the anthropologist plays and an. Literature review- the process of reading all the available published material about a research site and/or research issues, usually done before fieldwork begins. (p89) awareness that one"s identity affects one"s fieldwork and theoretical analyses. (p87) Anthropologist"s toolkit- the tools needed to conduct fieldwork, including a notebook, pen, camera, voice recorder, and dictionary. (p89) Quantitative data- statistical information about a community that can be measured and compared. (p89)
