ANTHROP 2202H Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Stratification, Informed Consent, Salvage Ethnography
19 Aug 2016
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Chapter 3: research methods in cultural anthropology, participant observation. A characteristic ethnographic technique; taking part in the events. Ethnography: anthropology"s distinctive strategy one is observing, describing and analyzing: emerged as a research strategy in societies with greater cultural uniformity, try to understand the whole of a particular culture. Write impressions in personal diary and separate formal field notes. Need rapport within community: conversation, interviewing and interview schedules. Naming phase: ask names of various objects to learn language. Ethnographic tool for structuring a formal interview; a prepared form guides interviews, with households or individuals being compared systematically; not the same as survey b/c personally interviews every person: the genealogical method. Procedures by which ethnographers discover and record connections of kinship, descent and marriage using diagrams and symbols. Understand current social relations and to reconstruct history: key cultural consultants. An expert on a particular aspect of local life who helps the ethnographer understand that aspect: life histories.
