Important Concepts from Unit 2 Notes Flashcards
what did European scholars rely on in terms of information in the earliest form of anthropology?
the reports of missionaries and other colonial officers
what three stages can ethnographic research be broken into?
preparing for the field, conducting fieldwork, after fieldwork
defining a problem worth researching, doing background research, developing a specific location, determining which field site to pick, obtaining research clearance, obtaining funding, and considering the ethics of their projects/getting ethics clearance are all crucial steps in ______
preparing for the field
Gabriella Coleman conducted research on online groups and hacktivists such as “Anonymous”, so her reserach took place primarily _____
online, or at hacker conferences and face-to-face interviews to supplement her online work
In Canada, guidelines for the ethical treatment of human subjects are established through the ______
Tri-Council Policy Statement
what is the standard amount of time for researchers to live as full-time residents to conduct their fieldwork?
12 to 24 months
what are “rich points”?
unexpected moments when problems in cross-cultural understanding arise, instead of viewing these moments as failure; look at them as the greatest opportunity for learning
how did anthropologist Paul Rabinow experience culture shock/rich points
when he arrived in Morocco, one of his informants whom he considered a friend, viewed him as an economic resource
when did the positivist mode of ethnographic research dominant anthropology?
until the 1960’s/70’s
who is accredited with the creation of the idea of positivism?
Auguste Comte
who invented long-term participant observation based fieldwork?
Bronislaw Malinowski
what is the fault within the idea of positivism? why doesn’t it work?
researchers are unable to produce forms of knowledge free of personal bias, only lab scientists or invisible observers can produce this knowledge, which is not how cultural anthropology works
in the 1960/70’s, what did positivism ethnographic fieldwork transition into when starting to be questionned?
reflexive mode of ethnographic fieldwork
_______ acknowledges that knowledge is situated
reflexive mode of ethnographic research
why did Annette Weiner go back to the same research place (Papua New Guinea) as Bronislaw Malinowski?
she found many systems that he wasn’t able to research, because he was a man and unable to learn about some of the female traditions in the colony
