information about human culture: ethnography and ethnology. Each approach has a specific goal. Each approach employs a variety of methods for data collection and analysis‚ all of which carry benefits but also challenges. Along with the challenges of data collection‚ field anthropologists face an additional set of logistical‚ emotional‚ and ethical obstacles. Anthropology is a difficult field but provides an important perspective on cultural diversity. Ethnography and Ethnology both attempt at reaching
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Ethnography of the Amish Jason Fawks Mentor: Dr. Charles Jarvis Module 3A Ethnographic Paper July 2012 Introduction With the modernization of a large part of the world during the 20th century‚ almost all people‚ except for third world countries‚ have moved from an agrarian society to an industrialized one. There is one group of people‚ known as the Amish‚ who for religious and
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The Amish Tiffany Capehart ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Jennifer Hotzman 12/10/12 The Amish Community is very interesting to me. I enjoyed the research and all I have learned by writing this paper. I am going to write this paper on the Amish ways. This paper will include the Amish history‚ beliefs‚ economic status and their organization. Amish History The Amish (also called Amish Mennonites) are all members of an Anabaptist Christian denomination who are especially known
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Specifically‚ Boas‚ in The Methods of Ethnology‚ argued against the various traditional evolutionary theories proposed by Morgan‚ Marx‚ Tylor and Spencer. Stating simply that these theories had a particular resilience‚ but lacked any sort of empirical evidence‚ Boas argued that the evolutionary theory was based on the counterfactual assumption that our culture was the most advanced and all others were merely following us (Boas‚ 134). After attacking the diffusionists by noting that their data was
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Linh Luu Travis Rountree English 102 April 11‚ 2014 The Inside Look of Nursing My aspiration for nursing was sparked early in my high school years when my mom was diagnosed with Anemia and I visited her at the hospital on a daily basis. This particular experience exposed to me the roles that nurses play in the hospital setting. The functions of the human body and the effects of the environment‚ drugs‚ and genetics on the human never failed to capture my interest‚ however at that moment I knew that
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Ethnography (from Greek word ethnos = folk/people and grapho = to write) is a qualitative research method aimed to learn and understand cultural phenomena which reflect the knowledge and system of meanings guiding the life of a cultural group (Agar 1996). It was pioneered in the field of socio-cultural anthropology but has also become a popular method in various other fields of social sciences—particularly in sociology‚ communication studies‚ and history —that study people‚ ethnic groups and other
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What makes ethnography distinctive as a research methodology compare to other approaches to study social deviance? Ethnographies of deviant behavior are one of the most popular within the sociological genre. It identifies studies that involves ‘personal observation‚ interaction‚ and experience (as) the only way to acquire accurate knowledge about deviant behaviour’ (Adler‚ 1985:11) Ethnography requires having a input to various fields such as anthropology‚ sociology and criminology in order to
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An Ethnology of the Kurdish People The Kurds are a Sunni Muslim people of Indo-European origin and speech who inhabit the mountainous region where the frontiers of Iraq‚ Iran‚ Russia‚ Syria and Turkey come together. Kurdish communities can also be found in Lebanon‚ Armenia‚ and Azerbaijan (Etheridge 2009). It is difficult to conclusively determine the exact number of Kurdish people in the world‚ however‚ it is estimated that 30-35 million live in various countries around the world (Houston 2009)
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The difference in ethnographies This essay is about ethnographies. It critically explains and compares ethnographies at published at different times by different authors .This is done to trace the differences with time. This is done mainly to identify the language of the authors‚ the themes‚ writing styles‚ how they appeal to the reader and also how they did their research in reference to the people studied. In this essay Ruth benedict’s patterns of culture is compared with primitive mind by Franz
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Interpersonal Ethnography Melissa M Mata Communication II November 14‚ 2012 Fresno City College Interpersonal Ethnography The concept studied in this ethnography was based on my own interpersonal communication over a 24 hour period. Interpersonal communication is the process of sending and receiving information between two or more people. When studying my interpersonal communication I will be addressing characteristics‚ patterns‚ emotions and encounters displayed over the time period
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