PSYC 100g Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Comedy Club, Culture Shock, Emic And Etic
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Involvement epic (insiders) perspective goal: to develop a rapport by getting involved without going native or losing yourself. *its possible to move between distant and participant observation. there are guidelines that you are supposed to do-- but you learn that you often shift between the emic and etic perspectives ways of doing fieldwork. Distant vs participant observation different ways of seeing ethnographers. Latina @ the comedy club positionality: imputed roles & intentions. Methodology for anth film-making (asch): know subjects, make an ongoing commitment to indigenous populations talk to policy makers, seek feed back from people you filmed, royalty agreement transitions in anthropology. *notion of participants is singular instead of groups of others can"t talk about communities are monolithic, imagined, constructed ei. being a trojan . Ethnographers positionally in the field: what kind of things would freeman have access to (as a chief) that margaret might have not and vice versa (relationship with adolescents)
