Data Gathering Techniques Data Gathering Techniques Interview • Interviews can be conducted in person or over the telephone. • Questions should be focused‚ clear‚ and encourage open-ended responses. • Interviews are mainly qualitative in nature. Data Gathering Techniques Advantages of interviews The main advantages of interviews are: • they are useful to obtain detailed information about personal feelings‚ perceptions and opinions • they allow more detailed questions to be asked • they usually
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Heidi O’Dell ANTH 1023 Semester 1 David Otten Anthropological Fieldwork Reducing Ethnocentrism Anthropological fieldwork is when an anthropologist spends an extended length of time living with a specific group of people and studying their culture. During this period‚ the anthropologist will engage themselves in the lives and daily practices of the natives of whichever culture they are studying(Koziol 2015). In comparison to fieldwork in other disciplines such as journalism‚ anthropological fieldwork
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Looking at anthropological concepts in 2 documentaries “Acting like a thief” and “A Rajasthani Jagrata.” Cultural Anthropology is the “study of contemporary and historically recent human societies and culture. The main focus being culture i.e. the customs and beliefs of some human group” (Bailey‚Garrik and James 5).Often‚ to better understand the meanings that people attach to their behavior‚ anthropologists live with them to observe them and get involved in their daily activities and rituals
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to Tylor’s theory. By adding to Tylor’s theory‚ they discussed that in a variety of myths‚ humans and animals could keep their souls/spirits somewhere other than their own body. It was noted that Tylor‚ Frazer‚ and others had only merely tied ethnographies‚ traveler’s tales‚ and missionaries’ accounts‚ together‚ taking elements from each to prove a point about humanity as a whole. What they missed was they didn’t bother to understand particular people in detail. Even if animism no longer serves as
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DR. HEIDEGGER’S EXPERIMENT GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF COUNTRY "Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment" was first published anonymously in the January 1837 issue of Knickerbocker magazine under the title "The Fountain of Youth." Hawthorne republished it in book form later that year in United States‚ under his own name and its current title‚ in a collection of stories called Twice-old Tales (in the sense that every tale had been published somewhere else before and hence was being told for the second time).
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Name : Dini Mustaqima Entry 4 NIM : 1402270 Seven Core Traditions in Qualitative Research A. Ethnography The basic position of ethnography is that this study is projected to study the behavior of the subjects under investigation when they are involved in the happening situation where they naturally belong to or do their specific daily life activity. The main research method to be employed in this study is extended fieldwork by making detailed field notes on the studied behaviors either through
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Throughout her ethnography she discusses how globalization and neoliberalism changed the economic climate of Mexico and in turn transformed prostitution into an issue of social hygiene as well as a modern form of exploitation. The retelling of the diverse personal experiences of sex workers in the Zona Galactica‚ a state regulated brothel‚ aids in her exploration of how prostitution is constantly being shaped and reshaped by politics‚ economy‚ and culture. Through her ethnography it is made clear
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1. How does Turner’s description of the three classes of data (p. 274) compare to Harris’ understanding of emic and etic perspective? In what ways does the etic and emic approach Turner uses help to analyze symbols? 2. Turner consistently addresses the symbolic nature of relationships during rituals between members of the Ndembu community. To what degree is agency given to the individual‚ especially when participating in these communal rituals? 3. On page 287‚ turner says‚ “treat ritual symbols
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plastic surgery in his ethnography‚ Pretty Modern. Throughout it‚ Edmonds discusses Brazilians’ construction of beauty and the shifting views of treatment and enhancement‚ giving the largest voice to women. Drawing from conversations with people of varied socialite circles‚ he investigates the structural‚ cultural‚ psychological‚ and historical factors that influence beauty such as the implications of sensuality that are embedded in plastic surgery. By the end of his ethnography‚ however‚ the neglected
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the researcher with others. Autoethnographic research is a form of qualitative data‚ the method seeks to describe and methodically examine personal experience in order to understand cultural experience. It is a combination of autobiography and ethnography; self-writing on cultural and social experiences. Although the definition is difficult to pin-point‚ it is not easy to reach a unanimous term; a famous autoethnographer‚ Carolyn Ellis defines it as “research‚ writing‚ story‚ and method that connect
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