Chapter 2 Flashcards
(13 cards)
What is ethnography?
The process of discovering and describing a particular culture, based on first-hand observation.
Blank is the technique if learning a people’s culture through direct participation in their everyday life over an extended period of time.
Participant observation.
A blank is an individual from whom anthropologists learn a culture.
Informant.
What is a respondent?
An individual who responds to survey questions normally associated with survey research.
A blank is a person who is observed by social scientists conducting experimental social or psychological research.
Subject.
What is an emic perspective?
It refers to the insider’s point of view.
Blank refers to the outsider’s point of view.
Etic perspective
What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research?
Qualitative aims to explore, rather than measure, various phenomena and quantitative is more statistical and mathematical.
What does ethnographic fieldwork include?
Interviews, participant observation, and survey-based research done with both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Blank refers to an approach taken by many anthropologists in the late 1800s that would try to make cross-cultural generalizations about cultures instead of first-hand research.
Armchair anthropology *Edward Tylor is a good example, who relied on the writings of travelers and missionaries for his work. Bronislaw Malinowski was one of the first to abandon it.
What is salvage anthropology?
A idea espoused by Franz Boas to rapidly document oral stories, songs, histories, and other traditions of indigenous peoples before they disappeared.
Blank is a term coined by George Marcus in 1995 that refers to the process of connecting localized experiences of fieldwork with broader, global processes.
Multi-sited fieldwork.
Blank is the act of creating generalizations or stereotypes about the behaviour or culture of a group of people.
Essentialism.
