Ch. 3

Question 1

Many ethnographers record their impassions in a personal ____, which is kept seperate from more formal _____ _____.

Answer 1

diary, field notes

Question 2

rapport

Answer 2

good, friendly working relationship based on personal contact with the host.

Question 3

most characteristis procedure of ethnography

Answer 3

participant observation

Question 4

naming phase

Answer 4

Asking name after name of the objects around us. Ability to ask more complex questions and understand replies.

Question 5

The results of a ____ ______ is to provide a census and basic info about the village.

Answer 5

data gathering. EX: name, age, gender of household members, family, religion

Question 6

survey research

Answer 6

involves sampling

Question 7

interview schedule

Answer 7

the ethnographer talks face to face with people, asks questions, then writes down the answer.

Question 8

questionnaire

Answer 8

procedures tend to be more indirect and impersonal

Question 9

genealogical method

Answer 9

developed to identify links of kinship, descent, and marriage. data is used to understand current social relationships and to reconstruct history.

Question 10

life history

Answer 10

recollection of a lie time of experience (can be videotaped or recorded)

Question 11

emic and etic research strategy

Answer 11

emic- native; etic- scientist

Question 12

cultural consultant

Answer 12

people teach him or her about their culture (do’s and don’ts); emic perspective.

Question 13

cultures that lack ____ theory of disease, illnesses are _____ explained by various causes, spirits, to ancestors to _____.

Answer 13

germ; emically; witches

Question 14

Bronlslaw Malinowski

Answer 14

considered the founder of anthropology

Question 15

salvage ethnography

Answer 15

belief that the ethnographers job is to study and record cultural diversity threatened by westernization

Question 16

interpretive anthropology

Answer 16

the task of describing and interpreting that which is meaningful to natives

Question 17

reflexive ethnography

Answer 17

puts his or her personal feelings and reactions to the field situation right in the text.

Question 18

ethnographic present

Answer 18

period before westernization when the “true” native culture flourished; cultures change and ethnographic account applies

Question 19

problem-oriented ethnography

Answer 19

researchers gather info like population, climate, physical geography, diet

Question 20

longitudal research

Answer 20

long-term study of a community, region, society, culture, based on repeated visits (2 or more visits)

Question 21

traditional ethnographic research

Answer 21

focused on a single community or “culture”, treated as more or less isolated and unique in time or space

Question 22

survey research

Answer 22

working in large population involves sampling, impersonal data collection

Question 23

respondent

Answer 23

people who respond to questions during a survey

Question 24

random sample

Answer 24

all members or the population have an equal chance of being chosen

Question 25

complex societies

Answer 25

large populous societies w/ social stratifications & central government