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Ethnographic Research

Methods in Cultural Anthropology . Fieldwork: the descriptive term for the collection of raw data at the site of study.Participant Observation: research technique where the research immerse themselves in the day-to-day activities of the people who they are attempting to understand.Ethnography: A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork.Ethnology: The study and analysis of different cultures from a comparative point of view..

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Ethnographic Research

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    1. Ethnographic Research Its History, Methods, and Theories

    2. Methods in Cultural Anthropology Fieldwork: the descriptive term for the collection of raw data at the site of study. Participant Observation: research technique where the research immerse themselves in the day-to-day activities of the people who they are attempting to understand. Ethnography: A detailed description of a particular culture primarily based on fieldwork. Ethnology: The study and analysis of different cultures from a comparative point of view.

    3. Key Consultant A member of the society being studied, who provides information that helps researchers understand the meaning of what they observe. Early anthropologists referred to such individuals as informants.

    4. Ethnohistory A study of cultures of the recent past through oral histories, accounts of explorers, missionaries, and traders, and through analysis of records such as land titles, birth and death records, and other archival materials.

    5. Advocacy Anthropology Anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis interviews Xavante Indians in the Brazilian savannah where he has made numerous fieldwork visits since the 1950s. Maybury-Lewis is founder of the indigenous advocacy organization Cultural Survival, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    6. Challenges of Anthropology Among the numerous mental challenges anthropologists commonly face are Culture shock Loneliness Feeling like an ignorant outsider Being socially awkward in a new cultural setting.

    7. Physical Challenges of Fieldwork Physical challenges typically include: Adjusting to unfamiliar food, climate, and hygiene conditions Needing to be constantly alert because anything that is happening or being said may be significant to one�s research. Ethnographers must spend considerable time interviewing, making copious notes, and analyzing data.

    8. Acculturation Acculturation is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct. (Kottak 2007)

    9. Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) - Comparative Method A vast collection of cross-indexed ethnographic and archaeological data catalogued by cultural characteristics and geographic locations. Archived in about 300 libraries (on microfiche and/or online).

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    12. Potlatch

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