QUESTIONS FROM CHAPTER 3 (DOING FIELDWORK)
After reviewing Chapter 3, please, address these questions thoughtfully. Don’t rush. The deadline is Wednesday 29 before 11:59 p.m. Remember that your responses will be used to both mark you present and also for points towards “Class Participation”. Again, I will not accept any late work outside Blackboard.
1.WHAT MAKES ETHNOGRAPHY A UNIQUE RESEARCH METHOD? AND WHY?
2.HOW DID ETHNOGRAPHY DEVELOP? WHO IS CREDITED AS AN IMPORTANT LEADER IN THIS FIELD? WHY? WHERE? WHO?
3.WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES USED IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH?
4.DO YOU BELIEVE (AFTER READING THE CHAPTER) THAT A GOOD ETHNOGRAPHY ONLY CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF WHAT THE ANTHROPOLOGIST OBSESRVES? IF NOT, WHAT MORE IS THERE TO DO?
5.BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE WHAT ANTHROPOLOGIST KATIE NELSON ENCOUNTERED IN THE FIELD (WHEN SHE WAS ABOUT TO START HER FIELDWORK) AND WHAT SHE DID ABOUT IT. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT EXPERIENCE?
6.WHAT WAS THE MAIN FINDINGS IN MARGARET MEAD’S ETHNOGRAPHY IN HER RESEARCH IN SAMOA? WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT OF HER FINDINGS ON THEORY?
7.PROVIDE A GOOD ILLUSTRATION OF ONE OF THE GOALS OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: MAKING THE STRANGE FAMILIAR AND THE FAMILIAR STRANGE.
8.WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE “EMIC” AND THE “ETHIC” PERSPECTIVES? PROVIDE ONE CLEAR EXAMPLE FROM THE CHAPTER.
9.WHAT IS “THICK DESCRIPTION”? WHO ARTICULATED THIS APPROACH?
10.WHAT IS HOLISM?
11.WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM THE SAPIR-WHORF RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE? PLEASE, FOCUS ON THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT. COULD YOU THINK OF ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THIS RELATIONSHIP?
13.WHAT ARE NEW “SITES” FOR ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH? CHOOSE ONE EXAMPLE FROM K. NELSON OR S. HOLMES.
14.FROM K. NELSON’S FIELDWORK IN BRAZIL WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES TO KEEP A CULTURAL RELATIVIST APPROACH? WHY?