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Young Huli girls of Papua New Guinea dressed for traditional dance

FIELDWORK. Imagine you wanted to understand how tourism had affected gender relations among the Huli. What would you do to prepare yourself for the fieldwork? What would you do when you got there? How would you structure your research and what would you do when you got back?.

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Young Huli girls of Papua New Guinea dressed for traditional dance

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  1. FIELDWORK • Imagine you wanted to understand how tourism had affected gender relations among the Huli. • What would you do to prepare yourself for the fieldwork? • What would you do when you got there? • How would you structure your research and what would you do when you got back? Young Huli girls of Papua New Guinea dressed for traditional dance

  2. “Imagine yourself suddenly set down surrounded by all your gear on a tropical beach close to a native village while the launch or dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight….Imagine yourself then, making your first entry into the village….Some natives flock around you, especially if they smell tobacco” (Malinowski 1922)

  3. kitchen in a local house “I looked up and gasped when I saw a dozen burley, naked, sweaty, hideous men staring at us down the shafts of their drawn arrows! I am not ashamed to admit that had there been a diplomatic way out, I would have ended my fieldwork then and there….I wondered why I ever decided to switch from physics and engineering in the first place. “Chagnon 1983 special dinner for a visitor

  4. Mt Hagen The market Local street General store

  5. BEFORE YOU GO • Funding • Health Precautions • Language • Personal Affairs • Authorization/Permission • Research – Group and Topic

  6. What is the goal of Fieldwork? “to grasp the native’s point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world”. Malinowski 1922

  7. CONDUCTING FIELDWORK • Establish Rapport • Find an “Informant” • Learn Language • Take notes, photograph, conduct census, interview, analyze documents, case histories • Participate and Observe

  8. Stages of Field Research • Selecting a Research Problem • Formulating a Research Design • Collecting the Data • Analyzing the Data • Interpreting the Data • Present the Results

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