Week 4 Lecture 1

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Anthropology

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Oct 30, 2023

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Slideshow Professor Argonauts of the Western Pacific His chapter on methods became the "bible for British ethnographers/ anthropologists of his own and subsequent generations - Participant Observation The ethnographer should live with the people studied, participate in everyday activites, and make systematic observations - Ethnographic Fieldwork Research undertaken over a long period of time- typically years - Open ended and inductive - Defines Sociocultural Anthropology - "Deep Hanging Out" "Thick Description"- Geertz Not only facts, but also interpretation and commentary - Critical Ethnography Including "Marginalized Voices: Ethnographer: a person who studies and describes the culture of a particular society or group - How anthropologists gather data - Fieldwork is the process of immersing oneself in a many aspects of the daily cultural lives of people - Term by anthropologist Clifford Geertz - Describes the anthropological research method of immersing oneself in a culture, group, social experience, etc… - A way of providing cultural context and meaning to human actions and behaviours - Applies a critical theory based approach to ethnography - When groups or individuals are pushed to the edge of a society and are not afforded active voice or place in a community - September 26th, 28th, 2022 Note: On Wednesday, we watched a film on YouTube called Taiga Nomads (1992) (Evenks reindeer herders) W4 Lecture 1- Doing Fieldwork: Anthropological Research Saturday, October 15, 2022 1:12 AM

Ethnography Long form monograph/ books - Art installations - Film - Blogs - Anthropology Defined Fieldwork method of participant observation - Anthropological questions and debates - Holistic analysis of a society - Sociocultural Anthropology How people live - How they interact with one another - What beliefs and values they hold - What institutions organize a society -

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