ANTH
Introduction To Anthropology: Lecture 2
Fifth Subfield of Anthropology:
-Applied Anthropology
-Public Anthropology -Use of anthropological methods and theories to solve real world problems
Rob Borofsky:
-Anthropology has the potential to change the world
Methods:
1.Field
-Anywhere that there is people, human behavior or culture
2.Fieldwork
-Activities that are done in the field typically with a purpose to answer a research question
Arrival Story
-Barker’s arrival among the Maisin
-Research question (field, fieldwork)
-Impacts of Christianity on Maisin beliefs
Participant-Observation
-Participating in and observing the activities of the participants of your research setting or your research field
-When an anthropologist lives in and studies another culture or people in that culture over a long period of time
-Process of learning, comes form involvement in the daily activities and routines of the participants in the field
-Adaption and adopting many features of life in the place you are working/living
-Long-term activity which produces lots of data, usually recorded in the form of notes/notes taking in the field
Strengths:
-Practicalities -Flexible -Produces lots of data
-Behaviors
-Obvious visible behaviors -Non-verbal behaviors -Explicitly aware of surroundings
-Experience
-1st hand understanding -Empathy
-Cultural Understanding -Produces a context for activities -Focus of things of local importance
Limitations:
-Practicalities -Produces false data -Not always easy to record of what you see and do -Exhausting
-Behaviors
-Subtle
-Bias
-Become part of the scene, become to close to everything, stop trying to understand because now everything seems normal to you; “growing nature” -People act differently when recorded -Participant-observation uses a very small sample Barbra Monsey
-“Vending Machines: Order and Disorder”
-Results were comprehensive
Fifth Subfield of Anthropology:
-Applied Anthropology
-Public Anthropology -Use of anthropological methods and theories to solve real world problems
Rob Borofsky:
-Anthropology has the potential to change the world
Methods:
1.Field
-Anywhere that there is people, human behavior or culture
2.Fieldwork
-Activities that are done in the field typically with a purpose to answer a research question
Arrival Story
-Barker’s arrival among the Maisin
-Research question (field, fieldwork)
-Impacts of Christianity on Maisin beliefs
Participant-Observation
-Participating in and observing the activities of the participants of your research setting or your research field
-When an anthropologist lives in and studies another culture or people in that culture over a long period of time
-Process of learning, comes form involvement in the daily activities and routines of the participants in the field
-Adaption and adopting many features of life in the place you are working/living
-Long-term activity which produces lots of data, usually recorded in the form of notes/notes taking in the field
Strengths:
-Practicalities -Flexible -Produces lots of data
-Behaviors
-Obvious visible behaviors -Non-verbal behaviors -Explicitly aware of surroundings
-Experience
-1st hand understanding -Empathy
-Cultural Understanding -Produces a context for activities -Focus of things of local importance
Limitations:
-Practicalities -Produces false data -Not always easy to record of what you see and do -Exhausting
-Behaviors
-Subtle
-Bias
-Become part of the scene, become to close to everything, stop trying to understand because now everything seems normal to you; “growing nature” -People act differently when recorded -Participant-observation uses a very small sample Barbra Monsey
-“Vending Machines: Order and Disorder”
-Results were comprehensive