Ch. 3 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Many ethnographers record their impassions in a personal ____, which is kept seperate from more formal _____ _____.
diary, field notes
rapport
good, friendly working relationship based on personal contact with the host.
most characteristis procedure of ethnography
participant observation
naming phase
Asking name after name of the objects around us. Ability to ask more complex questions and understand replies.
The results of a ____ ______ is to provide a census and basic info about the village.
data gathering. EX: name, age, gender of household members, family, religion
survey research
involves sampling
interview schedule
the ethnographer talks face to face with people, asks questions, then writes down the answer.
questionnaire
procedures tend to be more indirect and impersonal
genealogical method
developed to identify links of kinship, descent, and marriage. data is used to understand current social relationships and to reconstruct history.
life history
recollection of a lie time of experience (can be videotaped or recorded)
emic and etic research strategy
emic- native; etic- scientist
cultural consultant
people teach him or her about their culture (do’s and don’ts); emic perspective.
cultures that lack ____ theory of disease, illnesses are _____ explained by various causes, spirits, to ancestors to _____.
germ; emically; witches
Bronlslaw Malinowski
considered the founder of anthropology
salvage ethnography
belief that the ethnographers job is to study and record cultural diversity threatened by westernization
interpretive anthropology
the task of describing and interpreting that which is meaningful to natives
reflexive ethnography
puts his or her personal feelings and reactions to the field situation right in the text.
ethnographic present
period before westernization when the “true” native culture flourished; cultures change and ethnographic account applies
problem-oriented ethnography
researchers gather info like population, climate, physical geography, diet
longitudal research
long-term study of a community, region, society, culture, based on repeated visits (2 or more visits)
traditional ethnographic research
focused on a single community or “culture”, treated as more or less isolated and unique in time or space
survey research
working in large population involves sampling, impersonal data collection
respondent
people who respond to questions during a survey
random sample
all members or the population have an equal chance of being chosen
